I Am DB Cooper

Habitual criminal Rodney Bonnifield tells bounty hunters Carlos Rocha and Mike Rocha that he is the real DB Cooper. He has a tale to tell. In 1971, DB Cooper parachuted with $200k loot from a passenger plane and into infamy as the only unsolved plane jacking FBI case. Rodney is an overweight white guy. He recounts his criminal life with ease and the group sets off to find the rest of the missing loot.

Here's the deal. I'm certain that Rodney isn't DB Cooper. That doesn't mean that I'm not taken by his tall tales. It's white trash fun like a lot of 'reality' TV. I have come to accept that most psychopaths are undetectable liars. In fact, people with experience dealing with criminals can often be overconfident in their truth-seeking skills and get tricked. This is stuff of rundown bars and poor trailer parks.

When all is said and done...it's doubtful you'll leave the film convinced.

If only because there are other claimants who have more established ties to the crime, and established evidence.

When all this man has is a tall tale he used to dupe his friends and get in women's pants.

What makes his story most suspect, is not only the timing of the claim (he clearly tried to use to get out of an aggravated assault charge)...but the fact that he essentially claims that the whole thing was pulled off on a whim, without any planning, or viable knowledge of the aircraft industry whatsoever.

Which makes you wonder why they ever even believed him at all.

That being said...the recreations in the film are quite well done...even if the investigation it attempts to cover is kind of paltry.

So it has that going for it at least.

Even if the rest is a bit underwhelming.

5 out of 10.

As an avid DB Cooper aficionado, I will watch everything that even mentions the name. When I watched the trailer for this a few weeks ago I knew immediately it was going to be garbage. Some people are awful liars, and the subject in this "documentary" is one of those people. It's so apparent he's looking for fame that there is zero need for a polygraph. 300000 years of human evolution is all anyone with a functioning brain needs to see through his absurd claims. Half this film is made up of actors pretending to speak for people who they clearly didn't get the dialogue from. The only way I can recommend this is if you enjoy unintentional comedy. Otherwise...save your money. It's that preposterous.

Give me a break. This movie is a total waste of time. This 19-year-old with no parachute experience hijacked a plane, jumped and survived? They do ZERO fact-checking until they dig for four hours and find NO money? This loser is like Eric Cartman telling a grandiose story about himself on South Park. He's the greatest robber of all time; all women love him; most popular guy on Earth. The other people and crew of this movie are either knowingly lying or are the DUMBEST people you could meet. Definitely get a bail bond from this guy, because you can escape in a heartbeat without paying. I plan to tell the producers and documentarians that I was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 even though it was 14 years before I was born. They CERTAINLY will believe that I played badminton with Lee Oswald. BTW - notice the "Entertaining beyond belief" review is left by "M. ROCHA" and there is a person named Mike Rocha in this movie. HMMMMMMM.

A fascinating look into one of the many people who have claimed to be DB Cooper. A mix of interviews and recreations focus not on facts, but rather what Rodney Bonnifield knows as "his story."

Rodney might be DB Cooper, or a liar, or a kook. The filmmakers leave it to us to decide. The title, after all, is "I Am DB Cooper," not "He is DB Cooper."

The recreations are not based on established elements of the case but instead on Bonnifield's storytelling. He is what is called in fiction "an unreliable narrator" - a narrator who is not stating facts of the story, but rather telling their version which may not be objectively true.

I do not believe Rodney was DB Cooper. But I was left wondering if maybe Rodney believes he was.