After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
A schmaltz opera that indulges Robin Williams' most melancholy tics and themes.
– Peter Debruge,
Variety,
30 May 2014
rotten:
The film never quite manages to figure out what it's actually about.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
23 May 2014
rotten:
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.
– Nicolas Rapold,
New York Times,
22 May 2014
rotten:
Every scene between two people comes off like drunkenly shot video of a play rehearsal gone horribly wrong.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2014
rotten:
Considering its outlandish premise, what the film lacks are any outlandish scenes-or, if not outlandish, then at least ones in the realm of the creative.