Review of Richard Jewell (2019) by Crb — 18 Nov 2021

The character arch for Richard is interesting, and the character is played in such a way that you can actually sense there is also a bit of darkness behind the goofy autistic goody-good demeanor. Interesting story, likeable characters.

Two things bugged me. First, how the news lady started crying all of the sudden realizing the mistake she made and how she ruined some lives. She is presented like a cold hard unempathetic person for 95% of the movie and all of the sudden she realizes she was wrong and this makes her regret her actions.

The change of traits was way to sudden there. Secondly, I thought the was the story finds it's happy end was too fast paced. As in the 2 main characters go to the FBI interview, the realize the FBI has nothing on them, give a speech about how they stopped respecting the FBI, then leave.

That was that. So it seemed a bit that the story took it's sweet time to present characters and setting at the beginning but had to speed up the resolution in the end. Overall an enjoyable movie, very good acting and a story about redemption that makes it even more enjoyable because all adversities never changed the hero in his core.