Don’t Make Me Go (2022) Review

When Max Park finds out he has a fatal brain tumour, without telling his teenage daughter Wally he takes her on a road trip in an attempt to reunited her with her mother who abandoned her years before.

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Don’t Make Me Go turned out to be a rather emotional journey as we follow Max trying to ensure that his daughter is going to be ok, when he plucks up the courage to tell her about the fatal brain tumour. He turns down surgery because the rate of survival was very slim and he wanted to be able to enjoy the time he had left with her. Although the fact that he does not tell her straight away makes you want to scream at the screen “just tell her” especially when she was being rather horrible to him!

The issue was though that it didn’t really work out in Max’s favour when his ex-wife doesn’t actually want to see her daughter and is a bit annoyed with the fact that he just randomly turned up. That was probably more for another reason though, which I obviously will not spoil. The trip brings some home truths for Wally and what actually happened with her parents, but at the end of the day she still respects her father because he is the one that stayed with her.

I don’t think I was emotionally prepared for just how much the story was going to tug at your heartstrings and I certainly found myself close to tears with different scenes. Especially when it took a truly horrific turn that I did not see coming at all, that totally floored me and I was left just thinking oh my god for the final ten minutes or so of the film. Not meaning that in a bad way though as I guess it was a way to say that you really have no idea what the future has in store.

Let’s face it John Cho was a massive pulling point to watch this film, I mean come on he’s just utterly fantastic in everything he’s in! This was no different and being a father to a teenage daughter seems to bring out the best in him, yes I am still thinking about Searching four years later! Mia Isaac worked very well with Cho and you really did believe them to be father and daughter.

Overall, a nice little film that really will make you question different choices and what you say and do to those you love.