Roofman

Slow pacing in the last half

Spoiler free. Roofman is a good film. The pacing kind of slows towards the end, and we get a life lesson, albeit a light lesson we likely saw coming. From the looks of it, the movie follows pretty closely to the real life story without injecting any modern nonsense into the story. That's cool. There's quite a long man-butt scene with Channing Tatum. If I looked like Channing Tatum I'd head to the grocery store naked. I think he's a cool-ass actor. Go ahead and watch the film and credits for the film. It turns out to be a slightly feel-good movie, unless of course, you're going to absolutely hold it against Channing for the gun wielding robberies.

Another "root for the bad-guy" movie

The reality is, if a guy points a gun at people to take what doesn't belong to him, he's a bad guy and shouldn't be celebrated. That is, except in movies like this one.

No woke, unless you count a mixed-race marriage. I don't count that as woke unless it comes with an agenda. It's just incidental in this one.

Truth is stranger than fiction. You would have to be pedantic to find the differences between this movie and the actual events. I'm amazed at how closely they followed the true story. Leigh didn't work at the Toys'R'Us store and his makeshift room was actually in the vacant Circuit City space next door. That's not a lot of differences.

The person this is based on's ex wife was spanish so that is accurate and not a woke element. Also the best friend in the story was kept
mostly secretive to who he really was so having a black character is entirely possible. He's barely in it anyway and race is never brought up. There is the pastor and his wife who are mixed race white male and black female but I couldn't find if this is accurate or not. It could be a woke moment but I can't say for sure, and again race is never mentioned. The acting is good and this seems to be very accurate to the real story. Every time something would happen and I was sure there was no way it could be true and sure enough it turned out to be true. It's surprising how someone this smart could be so stupid at the same time. I feel like the movie drags a bit especially in the second half and could of been a bit shorter. Overall not a bad movie but it's not really what I was expecting. A decent watch and at least it doesn't seem to make a lot of it up like so many true story story movies do now.