A father-daughter road trip that navigates between comedy and drama, “Don’t Make Me Go” (streaming on Prime Video) has a lot of the right components. A likable cast. A story grounded in realism and human-scaled stakes. It’s not an unpleasant film, by any means. But it’s not one that makes a case for itself, either.
John Cho (fresh off Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop”) plays a single father named Max. He finds out he has a tumor near his brain that’s fatal if left untreated. His chances aren’t good even if he does have the surgery to remove it. Not ready to break the news to his 15-year-old daughter Wally, played by Mia Isaac, he decides to take her on a cross-country road trip instead.
She thinks she’s being dragged to his college reunion — don’t make me go, comes the heaving sigh of an exasperated teen — but his secret plan is to track down his long estranged ex-wife, who is Wally’s mother.
