Rob Peace
Rob Peace

Rob Peace

2024 • 2h 0m • 6.9 Released

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

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2 years ago

6/10

Jay Will turns in an engaging enough effort here but I found the whole story just a bit lacking in substance. It's based on a true story, adapted by director Chiwetel Ejiofor who plays the father of the eponymous young lad. He's separated from his mother (Mary J. Blige) but seems to be on decent terms with them as he comes for a routine visit in his dilapidated old car. Quickly, a tragedy strikes and dad "Skeet" finds himself sent to prison for a double murder. It falls to son Rob to try to find a way to prove his innocence. Skip on a few years and we find this young man, highly adept at mathematics, proving his genius as he manages to get into the Ivy League thanks to some sponsorship from his prep school but again, he is constantly striving to find a way to extricate his dad from jail. It's his skills at chemistry that now serve a different purpose as he and a few colleagues develop a brand new revenue stream that makes him very popular amongst the student body (and mind) whilst raising the cash to fund his dad's appeal. Meantime, with their community gradually falling to wrack and ruin, he also hits on the idea of using some of his cash to kick-start refurbishment works on over 170 homes that have been abandoned or foreclosed upon to revitalise his community - but when the sub-prime crash hits the world it leaves him desperately exposed in more ways than one. When we get to the end of this film, it does make you look back and think a little about how society can contrive to thwart people with even the slightest degree of social ambition - even when is appears to be eminently commercially viable, but the problem here is that there's just way too much missing from the narrative. We skip ahead when we ought to be developing his character his situation. There is virtually nothing from the trial that convicted his father, for example. Peace is clearly a decent man of idealism, reduced to using the tools at his disposal to funds things way more permanent than a flashy...

Marco-Hugo Landeta Vacas

Marco-Hugo Landeta Vacas

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3 weeks ago

5/10

(CASTELLANO)

Otra vez una película basada en hechos reales.

Y otra vez me ocurre algo bastante extraño:

hay momentos en los que no me creo lo que estoy viendo.

Con Rob Peace el problema es incluso más frustrante porque hay una parte de la película que sí me interesa bastante.

Yale.

Los estudios.

Los amigos.

Las fiestas.

Ese chico brillantísimo entrando en un lugar que parecía estar a kilómetros de la vida de la que procede y demostrando que puede estar perfectamente allí.

Ahí Rob me interesa.

Porque deja de ser "el protagonista de una historia real trágica" y empieza a parecer una persona.

Tiene inteligencia.

Ambición.

Amigos.

Sentido del humor.

Una carrera por delante.

Una relación.

Una vida.

Jay Will funciona especialmente bien en esos momentos. Tiene suficiente carisma como para que entendamos por qué tanta gente veía algo extraordinario en Rob.

Y la contradicción de Yale es interesante.

Puede entrar en una de las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo.

Puede destacar académicamente.

Puede moverse entre estudiantes de entornos completamente diferentes al suyo.

Pero sigue llevando Newark encima.

Su familia.

Su barrio.

Su padre.

El dinero.

La sensación de tener un pie en dos mundos y no terminar de pertenecer completamente a ninguno.

Ahí había una película que me interesaba muchísimo.

El problema es que Rob Peace quiere contar toda su vida.

Y cuanto más intenta hacerlo, más empieza a parecerme una sucesión de acontecimientos que una historia bien construida.

Especialmente con su padre.

Skeet está en prisión y Rob dedica durante años una cantidad enorme de energía, dinero y tiempo a intentar demostrar su inocencia.

Entiendo perfectamente que eso ocurrió.

Entiendo también que esa relación marcó profundamente su vida.

Pero cinematográficamente se me hace muy pesada.

Las visitas.

Las conversaciones.

Las exigencias.

La culpa.

Otra apelación....

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