best movie i've ever seen.

A Masterpiece!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Unsatisfying. I hope this was not Robin Williams' final movie. Poignant because it concerns the death of the character he plays. For this reason only was I able to watch it to the end. Not a good reason to view a film. But I wanted it to improve, even after the embarrassingly insensitive stuttering scene with James Earl Jones.

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.

I don't understand why this film only grossed 500k and practically went straight to video. I also wonder if the under appreciation for Robin's performance didn't contribute to his depression and ultimately his untimely demise. One trait of a movie that I would rate a 3.5 out of ten like this one averaged is poor acting and no suspension of disbelief. Other traits might be: Unbelievable unsympathetic characters, poor plot, shoddy filming, lousy music score. This film had none of these characteristics. Robin's acting was superb, as was that of his attractive co-star. Both characters were perfectly believable and affable (if flawed). Their eccentric behavior is based on understandable life events in their past. Despite the dark topic of the movie, it still manages to raise a variety of emotions including laughter, insight, relief, joy, thoughtfulness, love, reflection and many more. I guess for a film to have any appeal to the Hollywood crowd or insightful "critics" these days it has to be written for teenagers or by (yawn) Woody Allen. The rest, no matter how endearing or how many redeeming qualities they have, wind up in the straight to video dumpster. Anyway, if it isn't apparent, this is a worthwhile movie I recommend, even though the car crashes and special effects are limited in number. Robin Williams could be proud of his performance despite the horrible reception and reviews the movie received.

There's no doubt that Robin Williams was one of the great actors of the last twenty to thirty or so years. His films were wide and varied, therefore most casual fans, while accepting his brilliance, probably didn't like them all, but most would have a favourite. Now he's gone we're just left with his back catalogue to remember him by. As I've said, many of them are classics and worth their place in cinema history, sadly 'The Angriest Man in Brooklyn' will probably really only be remembered as one of Williams' last movies.He plays the titular 'angriest man' who is pretty much fed up with the world around him. One particularly bad day he ends up in hospital where an equally disenfranchised-with-life doctor (played by Mila Kunis) ends up breaking down and informing him that he's only got ninety minutes to live. This hardly improves his mood, but it does give the film its story, i.e. what will the 'angriest man in the city' do with his final moments.Unfortunately, the answer isn't as much as we'd probably like. It's fair to say that Williams isn't at his best. Perhaps, given light of his emotional state in real life, his heart and soul weren't really into acting this time round, especially as a guy who's not really into life and given only moments to live.The film's flaw is that it doesn't really know what it is. I guess it's supposed to be a comedy, but it's not really that funny (especially given what then happened to Robin Williams). Maybe it should have tried to stick at being a dark drama, but that's all academic now. It is what it is. And it is a sad story, not because it's that well-written or particularly good, but because you can't help but relate it to what happened in real life.If you're a fan of Robin Williams, you'll probably enjoy it. Or not. I'm a fan, but I found it rather sad really. I won't watch it again. Not because it's that bad, but because there are countless other Robin Williams films that he should be remembered by.