tolboz I think this is a scary movie. If you think of it as a scary movie, you can easily see that it is pretty good and hits its mark. From what it seems, it scared or depressed the pants of a lot of man folk about a possible lonely future and the everlasting pain of unfulfilled love and missed opportunities. If you have not thought about anything of that nature after the movie, well, I guess you should consider yourself lucky for being able to look back and knowing everything turned out the way you wanted in the end. This is a movie that stays with you once it is over, so, kudos to the filmmaker for achieving that.If you look at the story of the movie, acting, cinematography, I would not say that I'm impressed. Like many people mentioned here, it is full of clichés. A guy who is successful in a job that he is passionate about, has money, knows how to cook and more importantly, knows how to narrate while cooking, knows and longs for the magic of those nostalgic moments in music history that seem to impress the girls out of their minds, and finally, knows how to get the girl! Ah yes, he is flawed too, afraid of love, a loner, likes rough sex, etc.. Then we have our lady who is independent, knows how to love, good looking, a princess, brings joy to children, ... oh wait, she falls for the bad boy! Can she change him? We cross our fingers and wait for the happy ending (even though we have heard about the ending from others) but the idiot self destructs again and dumps the girl! Doh! It feels like the filmmaker started with the end and then built a story to get to it. There is not much depth and it feels a bit isolated from everything else around it although they tried to address that by introducing the mother and the kid later in the end. The acting is mediocre at best, for both lead characters.Let's get to the bottom line then. I gave it a 7 at its strength for being able to stir emotions and stay with you longer than most films. It could have been much better though, pity...

csaltun What I heard from most watchers is that everybody found somethings from their own life in Issiz Adam. They say that the movie is amazing just because catches you from your heart and mind like it tells your own life but not Alper and Ada's.To be honest, I definitely do not have the same feeling. What I think is that the movie is purely simple and that is why everybody finds somethings in it. Most of us try to find the real meaning of the scenes, speeches etc in movies but with Issiz Adam; many people do overlook while trying to find somethings deep.I could not understand what Alper wants also why his actions are always fulsome. What he wants and why? You find no answer in the movie. On the other hand, Ada looks like well experienced on relations with men but how she could fall in love with that bombastic guy? Can we just say that "because the love is somethings like this"? Sorry I do not agree.Well, besides the story and acting, the scenes and songs are really beautiful. So I recommend this movie to the lovers of oldies and to the people who feel lonely in their life.

Melissa Mel When I first watched the movie for about 3 days I felt its influence... Maybe the reason for that is during the movie I felt very close to both characters... Alper the deserted man who cannot even stand much long to his mother, cannot sleep when someone else is sleeping near him and gets really nervous when his girlfriend knows every inch of his belongings at home... Even from the beginning Ada knew what was upon in their relationship and how shall it gonna end... Although she hesitated, she chose to be with Alper... After the first night they spent at her house, her jump from bed looking scared, her jokes about marriage, and her experiences from previous relations... these are the facts of today's modern life... the speech between the couple was very simple and realistic... The last 10 minutes were really devastating..

sinekritik It is hard to come across modern day love stories in Turkish cinema and I guess this made a great contribution to the popularity and box-office of the movie. However if you are a believer of old-fashioned love, you might feel a little bit discomforted with the movie, at least I did. The business of falling in love on Monday, making love on Tuesday, breaking up on Wednesday and forget about everything on Thursday has no buy in from me. I guess this kept me a little bit far to the story during the movie. Apart from that, the depiction of modern day city life is quiet successful . Isolation, hunger for love, dilemma of love and freedom are featured in a striking manner. The ending which is praised as the most powerful part of the movie makes no sense for me neither logically nor emotionally.Acting is quiet weak, especially in the beginning of the movie but the charm of the actors saves the day. The mother is an exception to this observation, her voice and acting is very powerful and she contributes a lot to her scenes.Movie soundtrack is superb in the sense that the songs and story are in perfect harmony. I believe the story would never have such an effect on the audience in the absence of the songs.All in all, this movie deserves nothing more than 6 stars. We now expect better movies as this movie proved that Turkish audience is ready to pay for modern day love stories.