Our review of The Worst Neighbor in the World: Eastwood-style Hanks

His alarm clock invariably rings at 5:30 every morning.

Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks) grumbles, grumbles and gets up, as grumpy as the day before.

Come rain, shine or snow in this residential Pittsburgh neighborhood, newly retired Otto curses it all.

Depressed, suicidal, he wanders around his house and overcomes his boredom by doing security rounds in the neighborhood to check that everything is in order.

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Nothing finds favor in his eyes: the motorists who crush the lawns, the waste deposited in the wrong recycling bins, the young cyclist who leaves his bike lying around... and worst of all, the arrival of new neighbors, a young couple formed by Marisol (bright Mariana Treviño), Tommy (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and their two adorable little girls.

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In short, Otto is the very type of character that we love to hate in the cinema.

The more this grumpy grandpa spends his life sending everyone back to the ropes, the more we try to find out what secret wound...

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