By Lisa DiCarlucci, Entertainment Editor

“The Good Guy,” starring Alexis Bledel (“Gilmore Girls”), Scott Porter and Bryan Greenberg is one of those movies that is hard to put in one genre. It’s not quite a drama because nothing about the plot is all that serious, nor is it a comedy unless you count how laughable and predictable the plot is. It’s certainly not a romance because there is far too much negligence and infidelity to make anyone ever believe in love again. Overall, it’s just a disappointment.

Bledel plays Beth, a young Manhattanite in the early stages of a serious relationship with Tommy (Porter). Career- minded, almost funny and soft-spoken, one has to wonder if Bledel will ever learn to play different characters. Tommy seems like the perfect guy with good looks and an even better job. Their relationship is growing but surely, though the couple’s on screen chemistry would have you believe different.

Aside from a lack of chemistry, the characters themslves lack depth. They are sterotypes; the nice girl, the sleezeball, the hopeless romantic. It’s more than a struggle to feel a connection to any of the chracters.

Daniel, played by Greenberg, is a new co-worker of Tommy’s whom he takes under his wing both on the job and in the field with the ladies. Not surprisingly, Dan’s attempt at flirting only leads him to becoming inconveniently smitten with Beth. Shy Dan is the typical sensitive, romantic type, so much more suited for a relationship than the sly and charming Tommy. Not that the film spends over an hour setting up this very same theme.

That is essentially what “The Good Guy” is: a really long set up for a twist that, while pretty decently executed, is far from earth shattering. The movie is called “The Good Guy” for crying out loud and it does very little to keep it a secret who  said “guy” is. The only suspense is whether Beth will figure it out, but that’s not enough to hold the audience’s attention until the last fifteen minutes when the film actually gets interesting. Otherwise it’s just a nothing tale of girl meets boy and then girl meets nicer boy and let’s face it, this is something we have seen time and time again regardless of the genre, characters or the plot. In the end, the film leaves the audience angry, disgusted and overall, dissapointed.

Bryan Greenberg as Daniel and Scott Porter as Tommy in “The Good Guy.” (Photo courtesy of Roadside Attractions)