As a result of some positive hearsay regarding the movie, and in spite of the lackluster films Williams has been in recently, I decided to see Man of the Year (free with a promo code at RedBox, so don’t worry, I didn’t pay for it). The political action thriller comedy documentary love story didn’t win me over, though. It tried to be too many movies at once and wound up going nowhere with any one genre.

For example, the movie definitely has a comedic approach. The comedy is very classic Robin Williams in my book (that’s not a good thing). It was also surprisingly and unnecessarily lewd comedy with 70% relating to either boobs or farts. Simply not impressed. So, not a great comedy.

The comedy portion also served to devalue the other elements of the film, like the thriller side. A large portion of the movie (spoiler alert) was devoted to the story of the girl who works at Delacroy (I think that was the name, not worth looking up), the company that produces the polling machines for the major US elections. She discovers a horribly irrational flaw in the system that resulted in Williams’ character winning the presidential election. The company, of course, needs to stop her at all costs so the public doesn’t find out there’s a glitch, blah blah blah. Jeff Goldblum didn’t make a great bad guy, but not a bad bad guy either. But by any means, any potential moments of real suspense were watered down by a cut scene to Williams joking around with his production buddies (including Christopher Walken, who was the shining star and possibly only redeeming factor to the film).

I won’t go into detail on the rest of it. Suffice it to say that the attempt to throw in the political jabs (Dobbs’ [Williams] political stance is to pull power from the lobbyists and special interest groups to give it back to the people), a love story (of course the president falls in love with the glitch-finding girl), a tech movie (disturbingly bad logic in how she discovers the computer’s bug and what the flaw is), and so forth was simply too much for the movie. Don’t see it. Spend your $1 elsewhere, perhaps on the new Bond.

As a result of some positive hearsay regarding the movie, and in spite of the lackluster films Williams has been in recently, I decided to see Man of the Year (free with a promo code at RedBox, so don’t worry, I didn’t pay for it). The political action thriller comedy documentary love story didn’t win me over, though. It tried to be too many movies at once and wound up going nowhere with any one genre.

For example, the movie definitely has a comedic approach. The comedy is very classic Robin Williams in my book (that’s not a good thing). It was also surprisingly and unnecessarily lewd comedy with 70% relating to either boobs or farts. Simply not impressed. So, not a great comedy.

The comedy portion also served to devalue the other elements of the film, like the thriller side. A large portion of the movie (spoiler alert) was devoted to the story of the girl who works at Delacroy (I think that was the name, not worth looking up), the company that produces the polling machines for the major US elections. She discovers a horribly irrational flaw in the system that resulted in Williams’ character winning the presidential election. The company, of course, needs to stop her at all costs so the public doesn’t find out there’s a glitch, blah blah blah. Jeff Goldblum didn’t make a great bad guy, but not a bad bad guy either. But by any means, any potential moments of real suspense were watered down by a cut scene to Williams joking around with his production buddies (including Christopher Walken, who was the shining star and possibly only redeeming factor to the film).

I won’t go into detail on the rest of it. Suffice it to say that the attempt to throw in the political jabs (Dobbs’ [Williams] political stance is to pull power from the lobbyists and special interest groups to give it back to the people), a love story (of course the president falls in love with the glitch-finding girl), a tech movie (disturbingly bad logic in how she discovers the computer’s bug and what the flaw is), and so forth was simply too much for the movie. Don’t see it. Spend your $1 elsewhere, perhaps on the new Bond.