Personally, I don't mind the guy who is looking straight into the camera. To my mind, this would have been a perfect portrait picture of just someone, if it wasn't for the two other persons in the background, who are in a kind of interaction that I don't understand. And their very funny interaction (the one sitting there like a beggar, the other in a stooping position, carrying that bottle) distracts me a great deal. Without them, I'd be very fond of the angle, frame and lightning.