Trailers lie all the time. The marketers who create them take great pleasure in deceiving people about the actual content of the film they’re trying to sell. They’re hustlers, racketeers.
Perhaps there’s more substance to Derek Cianfrance‘s Roofman (Paramount, 10.10) than what this trailer is indicating, but you can tell right off the top that as far as Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst‘s characters** are concerned, Roofman is definitely not Out of Sight. It’s going for easy sitcom laughs…a tone of light silliness and zero sophistication.
Tatum, 44, dropped some weight for this role. Dunst, 43, is too old to play the proverbial girlfriend (sensible, morally grounded). If she was ten years younger, okay, but she’s not.
The red powder exploding in Peter Dinklage‘s face is the best bit.
Tony Revolori was only 18 or thereabouts when he played a slender, poker-faced bellboy in Wes Anderson‘s The Grand Budapest Hotel (’14). Now he’s 29 and chubby.
** Tatum plays Jeffrey Manchester, a polite, well-behaved stone sociopath felon who robbed a whole lotta McDonald’s restaurants in the early part of this century. Manchester is in jail as we speak, and looking at release in 2036…only 11 more years!