MovieIQTest

I cannot accept this movie's premise as it is. We know that this single-parent mom, a German white woman, a former Special Forces soldier, loves her son so much after her husband died. We can understand how she loves her son. But at the very beginning of this movie, this supposedly well-trained, very lethal Special Forces soldier proves herself not to be a careless person. She is not as good as an ordinary housewife and mother. She almost lost her kid in the subway when she was talking on the phone. Then she commited a more ser serious and unforgivable mistake in the American Embassy. She allowed her little kid to play in the playroom, alone, and left to go checking out her appointment. There's no other parents in that playroom when she left. How possible? It's like you leave a child in an unattended vehicle, or leave a kid in a nobody around playground in a park.

In order to create the leading role losing her child in a security-tight American Embassy, the screenplay writer and director, Christian Zübert, has decided to give us such a ridiculous scenario, a highly unlikely and impossible premise.

This movie is about a father abandoned his home in New England with three kids in a dented station wagon and decided to move to the city of Arcadia, Los Angeles, California.

This so-called as a "Road Trip", "Coming of Age" movie was obviously written by a guy who didn't know anything about the modern day realistic America, just crated a completely fantasy. Here are the whys:

First of all, he drove a dented station wagon. It means that he's poor with low income or no income at all. He is either unemployed or just was fired from his job. If the station wagon is dented, it also means that the vehicle is old, and he neither has the money to buy a new car, nor the money to have it repaired.

There is a quite vague reason why he decided to move to Arcadia, a city with so many expensive properties. A decision of choosing Los Angeles County is also an unrealistic scenario, a similar moronic one since as poor as his poor financial condition, there is no way he could afford the high cost of housing and the living costs in the Golden State, besides the necessary qualification to rent or even consider buying a house. If he does not have a current job in California to prove that he has been employed, an acceptable credit scores, a saving that can afford paying the first month and last month security deposit, or some believable referrals in New England, there is no way he could find any roof in Arcadia to live under it with his three kids.

Furthermore, the absurd movie also failed to explain the reason behind abandoning his wife. Why his three kids agreed to travel with him without their mother? These highly improbable reasons or excuses never explained or exposed.

Therefore, with so many unbelievable flaws and premises, the whole movie does not have any foundation for me to watch further.