Post #4 The Chaperone

This week I decided to review a movie I normally wouldn’t watch called The Chaperone. The movie is about an incarcerated father who has been released from prison and wants to be a changed man and reconnect with his daughter who was little when he was sent to jail. The daughter, of course, wants nothing to do with him and pushes him away but he still tries to be a part of her life. Throughout his time trying to spend time with her he is also trying to get rid of his past including his old buddies who got him in jail in the first place.

The movie is no way at all a comedy. Sure I chuckled at a couple parts and enjoyed watching most of the movie, but there is no way I would classify it as being a comedy. It was more of a family drama type of movie. The movie starts out extremely slow. Within the first five minutes of the movie, I could tell it wasn’t going to be a movie that would make me laugh out loud. Eventually the movie does pick up the pace about halfway through and starts to get a little interesting.

Not only does the movie start out slow, but the actors don’t really do a good job of showing true emotion. The girl who played the daughter never was sincere and her acting was over the top too dramatic mad at her dad and not at all believable.

If you are interested in watching this movie I recommend you only do so if you can sit through a movie and wait for it to get better and not expect to laugh much. It is however a good family movie, which is hard to find these days.