The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

2014 "Everyone has a bad day. Henry has one every day."
5.7| 1h24m| R| en
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After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
FilmBuff1994 The Angriest Man in Brooklyn is a brutal film with a poorly developed plot and a cast that mostly only seems to be there for the paycheck. The only worthwhile performance in this film is from Robin Williams, who embodies the emotions of a man who is expressive with no emotion but anger. You could really feel meaningful rage from him here, and his monologue in the camera is beautifully performed. However, it is simply not funny, I did not give a sincere laugh once during it. Most jokes fall flat and the ones that could have worked stumble due to poor pacing and execution. There is also no excitement, as we are following a man who has been made aware that he has 90 minutes left to live, but we are informed straight after that it is not the case, so we watch him run around like a headless chicken not being able to be a part of his adventure cause we know he will be fine. It also fails at trying to be heartwarming, as it tries to develop a relationship between Williams and Mila Kunis that was very forceful in its attempts to be sweet that it merely comes across as cringe, and the scenes towards the end had me rolling my eyes.They say that great actors can save poor scripts, but I disagree, Williams was perfect here, there was absolutely nothing wrong with his performance, but he simply could not save a badly written, poorly paced mess. Unfunny and extremely forgetful, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn will only leave you as mad as its protagonist. A man with an anger problem tries to clear up all his flawed relationships after learning he has 90 minutes left to live. Best Performance: Robin Williams / Worst Performance: Mila Kunis
Peter Pluymers "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
BlackRoseShelli I wish I would have seen this before Robin died. I think a lot of my feelings about this movie were colored by his untimely death. I tried very hard to watch it with an open mind, looking at it from the perspective that he was still alive. I failed miserably. The concept of the movie was an interesting take on an old question: what would you do if you knew you only had so much time to live? This put a whole new spin on the question, but the outcome was relatively the same. The cast was an unusual choice, in my opinion. Robin Williams was well known for being able to play a wide array of characters, from the brilliantly funny to the downright broken. This character was oddly complex. But again, maybe that's just me reading into it because of Robin's death. Ironically, one of the funniest scenes in the movie is the last scene, in which Robin's character is absent. In all, it was a fairly good movie that made me laugh and cry, and not necessarily at the points where you're supposed to laugh or cry. And it really made me miss the genius actor even more.
MovieHoliks What you can just about call Williams' last film (in a starring role), and I was expecting more... Phil Alden Robinson ("Field of Dreams", "Sneakers"), who directs only about once or twice a decade, you would think would've selected something a little more special-?? Overall, this story of a man who believes he's terminal (irony?), then goes in a frantic journey all over the city to right his wrongs, falls short. However, that being said, I LMAO at the stuttering antics of James Earl Jones in his little part as the electronics salesman! LOL I heard Jones was actually a stutterer as a child, so wondered if he borrowed from that for this part-?? But other than for that scene, I wouldn't waste my time on this movie, unless you feel the need to have closure and see Williams in his final hours on screen. Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage and Oscar winner Melissa Leo co-star...