MovieIQTest

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.

I have to confess that I have tried my best to sit through watching it, but I failed...gladly.

I don't know why this movie, with several men and women sitting around a dinner table, kept blabbering to each other, would cost and consume 50 million dollars to make. How much did the producers pay each of these actors to sit down? Maybe they spent a lot of the movie budget just for the black plastic glass frame for the guy, even if it looked so unnecessary and so fake on his face?

I have also found that the dialogue of this movie is just so irrelevant to me. I couldn't even understand what it meant, maybe not just to the participant actors who could ingeniously memorize the wtf? Dialogue, but to a lot of the viewers, including me. I have watched some movies with only two actors sitting facing each other and talking from the very beginning to the end, but I found them so interesting and never lost my focus. But the dialogue of this Black Bag, with more people talking to each other, I didn't even know what they were talking about and couldn't care less.

Black Bag (2025) would be one of the most tedious and meaningless movies that I have watched in the last 50 years.

Cate Blanchett didn't age well and did an abysmal facelift job that almost made her unrecognizable and tough to look at.