Roofman

I'm writing this a day after having watched Roofman, and I'm still struggling on why this got so much hype from people. So many reviews about this being a touching, poignant tearjerker of a movie. Yes, Channing Tatum does a great job as the titular character (and the rest of the cast is good too), but the problem is, Roofman wants me to view the main character as this beleaguered ne'er-do-well, trying to do the right thing but going about it the wrong way, and all I can see is a selfish dumbass who keeps making not just bad decisions, but obvious bad decisions that only someone without a functioning brain stem would make. I couldn't muster sympathy for him at any point, and without that, Roofman fails at its job. It got by on charm for me, but as a tender, tragic tale of a father who fails his loved ones by his own short-sighted actions, it just doesn't do it for me.