Roofman — 2.5/5
This would have made for a great '80s movie, had it been made in the '80s. "Oh, that's the Toys 'R Us movie," says both my sister and mother, separately, which shows this movie had its finger near something interesting. But instead of infusing this movie with a banger soundtrack and the charm of two attractive people getting on, it instead chooses this low-key dramatic awkward downbeat "improvisational realness" quality that I associate with the Duplass Brothers. And that shit is boooooooriiiiiing. And the events play out pretty much as they happened. The trailer promised a fun movie! The end credits, even, they show real news clips and interviews with real people involved, and it suddenly has this 'Bernie' quality which I would have loved to have had interspersed throughout the movie. Between the promise of the movie that appear before and after the movie, the middle is a true story that's stranger than fiction, but which needed an added layer of fiction to find some truth in it.
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