“Best Years Gone” (** out of four) was a hokey melodrama about an older man (DJ Perry) who starts to reflect on his years of self-destructive behavior and how he has few close relationships in life besides the woman (Erika Hoveland) he loves and has to make sense of his life to enjoy the remaining years he has left. Some interesting themes of reflection and loss and realizing one is at the end of their life but story is thin and emotions are muted. Perry also co-wrote the screenplay along with Karl Manke who adapted this from his own novel. Similar story was told much more powerfully with Burt Reynolds in “The Last Movie Star.”