i be aware of man of the year critical pan and unremarkable gross and but be prepare to give the film the benefit of the doubt because i know good picture can fall under the radar during the crowded release schedule of the fall month . what i find out be that the movie be surprisingly uninspired . surprising be an understatement consider barry levinson gift for political satire ( demonstrate in good morning vietnam and wag the dog ) and robin williams obvious comic gift . robin williams and in fact and be mysteriously underused . on the making of featurette that come with the dvd and barry levinson talk about how sometimes he let robin williams improvise off the script and like it be some naughty secret of his . um be you really that much of a moron and barry levinson . whenever you have robin williams in your film and want to use him for his comic ability ( basically and every movie he be in other than insomnia or one hour photo ) and do not cage him within a script . let him ad lib whatever he want because he be the funny than anything anyone else can write for him and his uncontained comic rant can instantly raise the bar on any mediocre movie like rv or patch adam . what i find even more baffling in his failure to make use of robin williams be that back in 1987 and levinson use this exact formula to perfection in good morning vietnam and inject robin williams burst of comic zaniness into a war picture to make a resounding political piece . so the film isn not a much of a laugh fest a it could be and feel awkwardly lose in it tone . if the film have potential to work a anything and it might have make one of those thriller from the mid 90 in the style of the pelican brief and the fugitive and or one of those jack ryan film . it plot center around an employee at a silicon valley company uncover a glitch in a system that reveal that the country elect the wrong president and the effort of the ceo to eliminate her before the secret get out and so if you replace robin williams with some harrison ford type actor and or perhaps even harrison ford himself and add a couple more explosion and and maybe that where the movie be try to go . i will never really know and it not worth it to try to find out .