The Good Guy
The Good Guy
R | 25 April 2009 (USA)
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Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications arise in the form of Tommy's sensitive and handsome co-worker Daniel. Beth soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street -- high risk, high reward and everybody has an angle.

Reviews
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
thindi31 I was drawn by the actors but was turned off immediately by constant f bombs. The only reason I watched it to the very end is to see what the first scene meant and to find out what happened to Beth and Tommy. I was totally turned off by the constant obscenities. It was as if they got their degrees and job experience in a prison yard instead of in finance or college. The men were mostly users and out to get only what they wanted themselves. Total jerks and immature. Only one or two of the men in their office had any integrity. Don't want to tell you more in case you want to watch this however I don't recommend wasting your time. Not to spoil too much but I liked the ending.. they got what they deserved.
linear80 The worst Comedy and Romance movie that I have ever watched :( Since this movie got 5.7 rating from 3000+ users, so I expected that I would get some good laugh and heart-touched romance scenes but NO, I didn't. Except good laugh and romance scenes, I got no idea that who is the main protagonist, female or male cast. I have no idea about what movie wants to show me "The good guy" and I just saw a d*ck who got a lot of chicks' numbers in his phone and F*cked a lot of girls who thought they were his only one love and spent the rest of their life together......... The ending also ridiculous......that such D*ck still got a girl with him, like he lives happily ever after which drove me crazy while watching it.
Angelus2 I came across the trailer and was hooked and so I immediately watched the movie...It's not a Romantic Comedy, more a of a Romantic Drama, about a young man's search for the right girl and when he does find her...she turns out to be his friend's partner...Tommy is suave and cool, he has the perfect life, great job, amazing apartment and a beautiful girlfriend. So, he feels its his duty to help his protégé, Daniel a naive gentleman who seems to be perfect for any girl...But he is painfully shy...Daniel, with the help of Tommy tries to meet girls...But things take a turn when Daniel meets Tommy's partner, Beth.The film is worth the watch as you root for Daniel, the 'Nice Guy' who gets ignored by the girl, there are some funny moments that combine awkward and funny together brilliantly, Bryan Greenberg is fantastic and he definitely has come a long way from One Tree Hill.
Willie-12 There are certain gimmicks used in movies that really should only be reserved for those who are seasoned and confident movie makers. One of those is the "let's reveal the ending at the beginning" gimmick. Basically the filmmaker is betting that everything that will come after the reveal (which basically is a flashback) will be so compelling, it won't matter if the audience already knows what's going to happen. It's risky. And when used by a lesser filmmaker, it's poison. It will kill a film before it even has a chance to breathe. That's exactly what happened with The Good Guy. Here's a film that definitely has it's problems. It's not very well written. It has decent acting performances, but nothing worth writing home about. It has a pretty generic and formulaic plot. But it still had the chance to be somewhat interesting. Had I not known the conclusion, I actually would have been mildly interested in how it was all going to turn out. However, because of the poisonous reveal at the start of the film, there was no real drama involved in any of the major plot points. I never felt sorry for Daniel, because I assumed he was the one wrapping his arms around Beth in the very first scene. I never really hated Tommy because I assumed, from Beth's statement, "I feel sorry for you Tommy...I really do," that he'd done some pretty stupid and crappy things. So by the time the ending of the film got back to the beginning, I actually had a little compassion for Tommy, when what I really should have been thinking was, "Hey pal, you got what you deserved." Was this ever going to be a great film? No. Could it have been a decent one? Maybe. But even if it was going to sink anyway, regardless of the poor film making decision, I'd rather it had sunk on it's own.