{"id":181842,"date":"2023-01-09T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-man-called-otto-review\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:00:02","slug":"a-man-called-otto-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-man-called-otto-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man Called Otto Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Man Called Otto hits US theaters on Jan. 13, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n There’s no getting around it; Otto (Tom Hanks) is old. We first meet him at a local DIY store attempting to buy some rope, with hilariously cranky results. Imagine a curmudgeonly, elderly man refusing to get with the times and taking it out on everyone around him. A Man Called Otto<\/u> is exactly that\u2026 at least, at first. But you’ll soon find that it’s actually a movie that explores the bleak existence of an elderly man who’s stuck in limbo \u2013 a life after life where he’s lost his place in the world. Thankfully, it’s not too long before he finds a new one. While it’s a perfectly heart-wrenching set-up, it doesn’t bring much else to the table, leaning on old tropes and a simple plot to tell a just-okay story about Hanks’ old grouch.<\/p>\n When the Mendes family moves in across the street, Marisol (Mariana Trevi\u00f1o), her husband Tommy (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and their two daughters throw Otto’s life into disarray. They’re the annoyingly perky neighbors who always want to borrow a wrench or need help with a window. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out what happens next, as director Marc Forster uses just about every clich\u00e9 in the book to hammer home Otto’s changing outlook on life.<\/p>\n