Simon R Taylor Henry 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.

Uriah43 "Henry Altmann" (Robin Williams) is having a bad day. On top of that he hasn't been feeling well lately so he goes to the hospital to see his doctor. When he gets there he waits for over two hours and is then informed that his regular doctor isn't in and he is seen by "Dr. Sharon Gill" (Mila Kunis) instead. After getting quite upset by this turn of events she proceeds to tell him that he has a severe brain aneurysm. This news causes him to go into an hysterical rage whereupon he demands to know how long he has to live. Not accustomed to being treated in this manner she gets mad and tells him he only has 90 minutes. Upon hearing this he storms out of the hospital. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that although it only runs for 83 minutes it seemed like it would never end. Although it is billed as both a comedy and a drama I personally didn't think it was very funny and the drama didn't hold up well either. In short, it had the necessary components to be at least an average movie but it struggled with its identity and ended up being a complete mess. I have rated it accordingly.

draciron The plot asks what would you do if you knew you had less than 2 hours to live? Stop and answer that before you even watch the movie. Then ask it again after you have. Do that and you will get and like this movie. Too many are hung up on the specifics of William's character. There is dark comedy but this is more of an introspective movie. Robin Williams gets to display the whole gamut of his considerable acting skills over the course of the little time he has left and the antics that ensue. This was one of the better movies to come out in the last few years and should have been the last one of William's movies to be released. A tribute to a man who gave us so much over the years.

secondtake The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)Almost the last movie with Robin Williams, and it changed slightly how I looked at it. For one thing, the character he plays is dying. And the anger he has (from the title) reveals a harder, sadder edge to the comedian. To say he isn't very funny here isn't really helpful—it's a serious role. Though he does pull out a couple zingers that may or may not have been scripted. Mostly he's an actor, and a pretty good one, but there is nothing brilliant happening here from him, or from the surrounding cast. A bigger problem still is the script, a kind of canned problem film where two unlikely people clash and have to make some situation correct itself for everyone's sake. It's forced, and not very well written.The co-star, the young woman doctor who ends up in the middle of the crisis through bad luck, is Mila Kunis, and she struggles to be convincing both as a doctor and as the leading counterweight to Williams (who if nothing else is Robin Williams, which has screen heft). Director Phil Alden Robinson is clearly out of his waters here—he's more of a steady screenwriter with one so-so movie in the can before this one—and so all the pieces in this romantic tragi-comedy are a bit out of square. The first of these is a decision (I assume the director's) to use voice over narration by the two leads, and if Williams is passable at best, Kunis sounds like a child learning to read her script. Weirdly avoidable stuff.Okay, it's fun, I'm sure, and if you want a diversion from heavier stuff, and you like Williams, and you like New York City, you might just have a good time. Without all of that, be wary.