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.
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.
– Tomas Hachard,
NPR,
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:
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:
The film never quite manages to figure out what it's actually about.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
23 May 2014
rotten:
A schmaltz opera that indulges Robin Williams' most melancholy tics and themes.