As broad as Williams goes in these scenes, it’s not really his fault. He’s acting out a screenplay, credited to Daniel Taplitz, that’s peppered with bad writerly flourishes.
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Village VoiceCalum Marsh
Village VoiceCalum Marsh
Much has changed in the two decades since the release of Joel Schumacher's Falling Down, but, as The Angriest Man in Brooklyn flatly reminds us, the grievances of America's petulant middle-class men apparently have not.
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The DissolveJen Chaney
The DissolveJen Chaney
The movie plays out like an improbably plotted work of overly aggressive schmaltz.
The movie is predictably sentimental at its root, but it’s also meant to be comedy, partly resting on Mr. Williams’s energetic but failed attempt to play a jerk.
The jovial, hyperverbal comic has played against type before, but his presence feels like epic miscasting in this underwritten dramedy.
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Slant MagazineDrew Hunt
Slant MagazineDrew Hunt
Robin Williams once again proves he can insufferably crank the energy to 11 without batting an eye, only this time his frenzied comic demeanor is replaced with equally harried contempt.
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com
It all leads up to some very bad green-screen work depicting a dangerous traipse around the Brooklyn Bridge, and reaches a sort of epiphany with a view of a floating carousel. Yes. It is very much that kind of movie.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Phil Alden Robinson’s overheated dramedy feels disconnected from reality in every emotional way.