John Cho and Mia Isaac star in director Hannah Marks' 'Don't Make Me Go,' a film with heart but off-putting needle drops that leave it feeling uninspired.
) and Gen Z daughter Wally as they head out on a cross-country road trip following Max’s sudden diagnosis of a likely terminal brain tumor.
Important here is Max’s choice not to tell his daughter of his condition or his intention of traveling with her in order to introduce Wally to her mother, who abandoned the family shortly after Wally’s birth.
Amid all of this, “Don’t Make Me Go” is punctuated by a too often banal soundtrack. While tonal experimentation is always welcome in ordinary narratives like the one Marks and Bradley have offered up here, these aims are mostly unsuccessfully realized, with music choice and timing taking us out of the film in some of its most substantive moments.
In this vein, “Don’t Make Me Go’s” most obvious misstep is its completely commonplace nature. While its issues with pacing can be overlooked in favor of its welcome sincerity and full heart, everything that Marks’ film offers us is well-trod territory.
There is a line between narrative comfort and lack of imagination and, unfortunately, “Don’t Make Me Go” too frequently occupies the latter space. While every director shouldn’t be tasked with reinventing the cinematic wheel , there is something about a movie such as “Don’t Make Me Go” that — even as it pulls on your heartstrings or makes you smile — still leaves you feeling uninspired.R, for for some sexual content, graphic nudity, language and teen drinking.
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