Saturday, August 1, 2020

RSO [Registered Sex Offender] (2008)

For obvious reasons this would be the least general audience friendly of the Bob Byington directed films I've seen. 'RSO [Registered Sex Offender] is presented as a (mock) documentary chronicling a registered sex offender after his release from jail and his efforts at rehabilitation and reintegration as a productive member of society. Only the documentaries subject (played by Gabriel McIver) stubbornly refuses to seem redeemable, at lest for most of the film (minor spoiler, not that this is a 'plot movie' it is a 'scene movie'). We don't find out exactly what our protagonist has done until very late in the film, and a good portion of that had to do with an address mix up. Full of awkward humor, smartish, it has it's moments. **1/2

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