Watched Roofman, not sure how to feel about it tbh. Quite a tragi-comedy, character study of a film. I expected a sombre ending but seeing it happened and how far Channing Tatum's character fell, idk it just hit hard somehow.
People were awkwardly laughing at the ending, I'm not sure if it was out of confusion like how I felt or they found it genuinely funny in a dark humour, ironic sort of way, but it just made it even worse for me and I just walked out feeling perplexed and feeling it was anticlimatic.
I have to say Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinklage etc were genuinely great in it. Some pretty funny and even the odd emotional parts too.
I felt there were some big plot holes and I didn't like it glossed over him trying to see his actual daughter and thus her being cut from the rest of the film, it avoided some cliches in that regard and in general but that ending just left me feeling hollow.
Kirsten was too forgiving of what he did by the end of the film too, he really went down a dark path by then and did some irredeemable shit compared to what he was doing before. They avoided all the big drama/fighting with him and her but instead gave us a tonal whiplash reunion.
Channing bonding with Kirsten's daughters in the film was adorable, as well his own daughter too though.
I'm not sure if I made the right choice in what film to watch though, I feel I should have gone with my gut and gone for Tron Ares instead despite not seeing the previous films but oh well. After that ending and some very slow pacing in the beginning (people said the 2nd half was much slower but it was the exact opposite for me, it got much more interesting when he got into the Toys R Us and also when things escalated in the 2nd half),
I just can't give this a higher than a 7 at best. A 6 to 7, that's all.
When he got into the Toys R Us, there was some pretty funny and ridiculous scenes though. Also the scene of Kirsten trying to help co-worker deal with their shitty, heartless, bully of a boss and stand up to him went nowhere but the boss (played by Peter Dinklage) got brutally humiliated and suffered due to Channing "unintentionally" so there's that I guess lol.
The weirdest part was 6 people left the movie for some reason, 2 women walked out at first quite early on and then 4 young guys just walked out too much later on. I have no idea why, did the film bore or offend them that much?
