Review of Man of the Year (2006) by Brandon W — 09 Mar 2016

Man of the Year is directed and written by Barry Levinson, and it stars Robin Williams in a political film about a talk show host who wanted to become the president, surprisingly succeed at it, and one of the people who works in the voting machine company, found a computer glitch, and the people will do what it takes to stop her before she tells the elected president about it.

I honestly wouldn't really watch it if it wasn't for history class that the teacher let us watch, and just Swing Vote, Man of the Year is just an average film that I didn't think was good, but it wasn't bad either.

Robin Williams is always great in this film and tries his best to make the film work. Laura Linney is really good for what she's got, and in the first act, there were some clever lines and some funny moments.

I was curious to see where it was going, and hearing Tom's speech in the beginning during the presidential race, it was investing. Sadly, that's pretty much the good that I can think of as there are some major problems that I had.

The love chemistry between Robin Williams and Laura Linney was really not needed, and most of the humor was not funny. When it switched to a conspiracy film, I was fine with it as long as it know what it's doing, but the film thinks that it really smart when from the audience, there are just stuff in it that make no sense.

There were some dull moments in there, and it goes through too many times in the film. I would not watch Man of the Year again, but I didn't hate myself for watching it as it could've been clever, but it sadly wasn't.