It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.
View MoreA lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
View MoreAmazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
View MoreThere's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
View Morethe best thing - the cast. a film who presents together Robin Williams,James Earl Jones, Peter Dinklage represents a real temptation.Mila Kunis search to give a decent character. the worst thing - the cast. because good actors seem be enough. the script becomes only a detail. far to be a bad film, it is an embroidery of well known clichés. dramatic, seductive in few moments. but not real convincing. a film about solitude, self introspection, cruel verdict and hope. about family and the challenges who transforms the life. bitter. and supported by the memories about Robin Williams. or by the fears, angry, need to escape from yourself who defines the existences of a large slice of public. one of films who seems have not real clear purpose. but comfortable as remember for a great actor who gives an ordinary gray character.
View MoreHenry Altmann (Williams) is having a bad day: he has a brain aneurysm that means he is going to die. After bullying Dr. Gill (Kunis) into giving him a prognosis, she lies and tells him he has 90 minutes to live, leading to Altmann's doomed struggle to right a lifetime of wrongs in no time at all.Altmann spends the movie dashing from one disaster to the next, with his doctor and family in hot pursuit. Williams handles the script brilliantly, exploding with rage one minute and oozing pain the next. His performance is at once touching and amusing. Whether it's his screwed-up face in his first contemporary scene, or his hysterical encounter in the junk shop with Ruben (Earl), this tragedy is a comedy.Perhaps the biggest disappointment is Peter Dinklage's criminal underuse as Altmann's younger brother Aaron. He's inoffensive and perfunctory, which seems a terrible waste given his comic brilliance in Game of Thrones. Combined with Williams' legendary showmanship, the pairing could have, and should have, been dynamite.Though elements of the plot are old hat (think urban Ebeneezer Scrooge, and the obligatory father-knows-best-for-rebellious-son turn), it's given a freshness here with its comically dark plot. There's a devastating irony as Altmann looks back on his mistakes, considers suicide and even refers to his tombstone reading '1951–2014′ when Williams' own suicide followed months later, and his own tombstone carries the very same dates. This was, indeed, the last of his films to be released in his lifetime.A very watchable and entertaining movie, The Angriest Man In Brooklyn does not particularly break any ground or challenge any of its cast. You won't regret watching it, but you won't necessarily remember either.
View More"My uncle died of one. One minute he was brushing his teeth, the next, he was dead. Didn't even have time to rinse."Robin Williams was and remains for me a legendary actor. When I was young I watched "Mork and Mindy" and was always looking forward to witness the hyper-kinetic way of acting that this star in the making showed on the screen. When I heard the news about his death, I was speechless. The days after this sad news, masterpieces such as "Good Morning, Vietnam", "Dead Poets Society", "Good Will Hunting" and my favorite "Patch Adams" were broad-casted as a tribute. But I deliberately didn't watch them. In the same way I couldn't induce myself to watch "The angriest man in Brooklyn". Today I felt the time was right to finally see this great actor at work again. It's a typical Robin Williams movie, although his dead made me look at this movie in a different way and it felt as if it got a whole different meaning. A film about loneliness, resentment, anger, death and suicide. It was quite morbid at times. I was wondering if he was preparing his fatal ending here already mentally."The angriest man in Brooklyn" certainly isn't one of Williams's greatest films, but the role as Henry Altman was cut out for him. A sullen older guy who has a full-time job as a disgruntled citizen and making a fuss about everything and nothing. A cynical pessimist who loses his patience very quickly and immediately becomes abusive full of rage. Henry used to be a loving husband and father, but a tragic event turned him into a bitter man. The day he mistakenly hears that he has only 90 minutes to live, told by Dr. Sharon Gill (Mila Kunis) who's coping with some personal issues herself, he starts a mission to fix what has gone wrong in his life and tries to smooth out the rough edges. And that's the start of a chaotic chase and search for Henry with some comical situations and emotional moments.Unfortunately, the humorous scenes were rather scarce. Besides the hilarious fragments with the stuttering salesman James Earl Jones, the collision with the Uzbek taxi driver and to a lesser extent the conversation with Richard King during a reunion, there's not much to laugh about in this tragicomedy. In my opinion this is because of the heavy theme that actually forms the common thread throughout this story. Williams also had difficulties with this. The way the outbursts of anger turn up, didn't look like well-timed and natural. It seemed as if he meticulously followed the script and then suddenly realized that it was time for a tantrum.Kunis also wasn't spared some clichéd personal characteristics. Although it's her merit that she did a fine job next to the grand master himself and I liked her much better than in "Jupiter Ascending" (although that wasn't so hard to realize). Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo and Hamish Linklater played the roles of respectively Henry's brother, wife and son. They all show the same pattern of behavior. First they all have nothing good to say about their related family member and afterwards they're running their butt off to pick up the pieces again. Not very original. When I think of the phenomenon Williams, I definitely won't associate this film with him. To me it looked suspiciously a lot like "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas, but this is the semi-humorous version. Kind of sad that his career didn't end with a blast of a movie.More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT
View MoreAfter reading about the movie being based on Robin Williams' character finding out that he has 90 minutes to live, I thought it would be a hard watch because of the recent death of Mr. Williams but after getting through the first act of the movie, I dove right into the story without any interference.By the title of the movie, it's a given that his character is a very angry man and finding out that he has 90 minutes to live doesn't help. His usual doctor was not present to tell him the news and it was up to Mila Kunis' character, who also is going through her issues, to break the terrible news to Robin. And after hearing the news, Robin very angrily, tries to reconcile with his friends and family with the very short amount of time he has left.The movie tries to be a dramatic comedy but it comes off more as a slapstick-ish comedy than a dramedy. Most of the movie is Robin Williams acting really angry, which fleshes out all the silly comedy between the people he interacts with, but then all of these little dramatic flashbacks appears in Robin's mind throughout Robin's mission to reconnect with all of his friends and family and the flashbacks act as both a dramatic balance to the comedy and the anchor of where his anger is coming from. The problem is that the comedy and the dramatic flashbacks doesn't add up. The comedy needed to be more grounded and natural for it to work with the dramatic flashbacks but the comedy is often very silly and childish and it doesn't work with the emotional drama the movies wants to create.I really wanted to like the movie but the comedy is mildly funny and the emotional drama isn't fleshed out enough between Robin Williams and the people he wants to reconnect with. There's another Robin Williams movie, World's Greatest Dad, that really nails the black humor comedy that this movie seems to try to be. I did enjoy seeing Robin Williams acting as a very angry man, it was very humorous at times, seeing him going off on people. But there was too much narrative and exposition being explained throughout the movie and not enough visual tension between Robin and all the people he has wronged. And the plot device of him dying in 90 minutes makes it hard to create the emotional drama the movie needs for the audience to really care about him dying and him getting the redemption he wants. You won't be as angry as Robin Williams' character after watching this movie, but you will be a little disappointed.
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