This will be the first time I review a Robin Williams film since his passing and I notice that he has several projects yet to be released. Each one will be a painful reminder of how much we lost, Williams was a never ending spring of zany talent.
Sad to say also that in this film though Williams delivers a superb performance the guy who really should have done this film has not been with us for 14 years. Walter Matthau was born to play the lead in this film and he's passed also.
If Robin Williams isn't mad at something he'd have to invent a reason. In The Angriest Man In Brooklyn Williams is a 60 something man who lost one of his two sons a few years back and now remains in a permanent state of agitation.
But this is a day that he gets the worst news of all, but he doesn't break his stride one bit. Unfortunately he gets a substitute doctor to read him his diagnosis of a brain aneurysm and Mila Kunis is having a bad day herself. As Williams starts pressing her buttons Kunis blurts out you have 90 minutes.
So for the rest of the film Kunis is chasing Williams trying to rectify her time error. And Williams is out painfully finding out that he's pushed friends and family so far away that the only one who really cares it seems is this doctor who was a total stranger this morning.
Terminal diagnosis is not usually a subject for humor, but we're dealing with Robin Williams here. The best comedy in the film centers around Williams and Kunis with an Uzbek cabdriver whom he opened the film with before. I have to say Kunis really gets into the spirit of Williams character when he meets the Uzbek again. Williams also as a nice scene with James Earl Jones who takes a small role as a stuttering salesman in a camera shop.
With a lot of Williams films you get a torrent of feelings some of them working at cross section in your mind. He's not a lovable man, but in the end you understand him sort of. Life can grind you down over the years and it certainly was true of him.
This fortunately is not the swan song of Robin Williams. Let's hope that the unreleased work keeps up this standard.
Sad to say also that in this film though Williams delivers a superb performance the guy who really should have done this film has not been with us for 14 years. Walter Matthau was born to play the lead in this film and he's passed also.
If Robin Williams isn't mad at something he'd have to invent a reason. In The Angriest Man In Brooklyn Williams is a 60 something man who lost one of his two sons a few years back and now remains in a permanent state of agitation.
But this is a day that he gets the worst news of all, but he doesn't break his stride one bit. Unfortunately he gets a substitute doctor to read him his diagnosis of a brain aneurysm and Mila Kunis is having a bad day herself. As Williams starts pressing her buttons Kunis blurts out you have 90 minutes.
So for the rest of the film Kunis is chasing Williams trying to rectify her time error. And Williams is out painfully finding out that he's pushed friends and family so far away that the only one who really cares it seems is this doctor who was a total stranger this morning.
Terminal diagnosis is not usually a subject for humor, but we're dealing with Robin Williams here. The best comedy in the film centers around Williams and Kunis with an Uzbek cabdriver whom he opened the film with before. I have to say Kunis really gets into the spirit of Williams character when he meets the Uzbek again. Williams also as a nice scene with James Earl Jones who takes a small role as a stuttering salesman in a camera shop.
With a lot of Williams films you get a torrent of feelings some of them working at cross section in your mind. He's not a lovable man, but in the end you understand him sort of. Life can grind you down over the years and it certainly was true of him.
This fortunately is not the swan song of Robin Williams. Let's hope that the unreleased work keeps up this standard.