A mockumentary about a sex offender who gets out of jail and tries to adjust to post-prison life.
The story: A mockumentary about a sex offender who gets out of jail and tries to adjust to post-prison life.
Was it good?
Not quite. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't up to some of the classic dark mockumentary movies like MAN BITES DOG. They do a lot of the stuff that you would expect -- going door to door telling people he is a sex offender moving into the neighborhood, trying to do job interviews, talking to girls, lots of weird sex stuff, etc -- but none of it really lands. It isn't horrible/painful as really bad mockumentaries can be, but it doesn't really generate many laughs either.
The difference, to me, is that the mocks that really, really work have more of a point of view. MAN BITES DOG and SPINAL TAP aren't just an environment and then thinking what funny/weird stuff can be throw in there. Whether it is an attack on the media's roll in sensationalizing violence (MAN BITES DOG) or a statement of both the ridiculousness and awesomeness of heavy metal (SPINAL TAP) they got at something. RSO has a lot of scenes that could have worked, but it needed a stronger point of view. The best scene in the movie is when he goes to a job interview he starts asking the interviewer what he would say to all the banal questions (what is your best trait, etc) and it is funny and would have been hilarious if they had just pushed it a little bit further. That's what the rest of the movie needed -- use the sex offender idea to hold up a mirror to everyone, show that we all are weird with our fetishes.
That and a little better improve and this could have been a keeper. However, as it is now it just doesn't find enough funny.
NOT RECOMMENDED
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