Expected more

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Although the plot is a little un-realistic, it is still funny. I am surprised it is getting below 6 ratings, as of now. Hopefully, it will go up.Robin Williams is funny as usual.

In the wake of Williams's suicide, it's difficult not to view THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN as a piece where truth and fiction have unwittingly come together.The basic scenario is one that has been well explored in past comedies: Henry Altmann (Williams) is told by his doctor Sharon Gill (Mila Kunis) that he has ninety minutes left on this earth, and resolves to pack as many things into that space of time as he can. Unfortunately his best-laid plans go wrong; his wife Bette (Melissa Leo) hates him, his son Tommy (Hamish Linklater) hasn't spoken to him for two years, and his childhood friend Bix Field (Richard Kind) has an argument with him over an incident occurring four decades previously when both were at school. Henry's main problem is that he cannot help but get angry at any and every little thing, which prevents him from understanding either himself or others.The narrative unfolds as a chase, with the doctor desperately trying to find Henry and explain things, but Henry proves fascinatingly elusive. There are some very funny set pieces, especially one in a store where Henry tries to purchase a video camera from Ruben (James Earl Jones).In the end the movie becomes a little overwhelmed with gushy sentiment, as the doctor and Henry meet up and things get worked out. Nonetheless there is still time for a hilarious piece of trading racist insults involving Henry, the doctor, and an Uzbek taxi driver (Daniel Raymont).Ingeniously structured round parallel voice-overs, with Williams and Kunis telling about each other's lives, their past, present and futures. THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN is worth watching, despite the saccharine moral.

Let me say first off that the acting all around was solid, as one would expect from the likes of the film's cast. The trouble is, it doesn't quite feel like they had a lot to work with in a script that lacks depth.It may seem strange to ascribe a story about mortality and the dying process with an adjective like 'shallow', but there it is. I can't quite put my finger on the missing element, but something just keeps the situation from having substantial emotional impact, or even deep philosophical implications. Of course, it's somewhat of a dark comedy as well - and it does have some humorous moments (James Earl Jones, thumbs up!). The pacing is right. You really do feel that 90 minutes, in a good way. Yet somehow the humor isn't quite as big as I feel it needs to be, and the sentimentality seems a bit spoon-fed. Maybe it's the neatness of the plot; maybe it's the setting or the dialog, I can't say, but I just never really connected with the characters. Then again, having experienced the loss of close family and friends throughout life has left me with my own experiences and expectations.Certainly worth watching as long as you know going in you're not going to feel invested in the story and will probably not dwell on it for long afterward - "Angriest Man" is what it is: enjoyable but verging on maudlin.

After 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.