The Chaperone (2011)
1/10
Stupidity screen writing 101
20 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Triple T finishes 7 years in prison, swears off crime, a new man with the singular goal of re-entering his teenage daughter's life. He is so devoted to his new life that just as soon as he encounters difficulty getting a job he joins his former gang to rob a bank with him as their driver. He drives them to the bank and is sitting in the car as the others are inside brandishing guns, threatening to shoot people and collecting money. At this point the idiot writers have made Triple T a 100% felon bank robber. No matter that he decides to bail out of the car and leave. Too late, he already delivered the robbers to the bank and totally participated in the robbery. He also left his fingerprints on the getaway car, which prints police find and use to ID him as one of the bank robbers. He is just as much of a bank robber as he would be if he was inside brandishing a gun.

When Triple T whines and lies to his daughter, "I'm innocent", his teen daughter reminds him that his fingerprints were found in the bank robbers cars. Well, yes I was sitting in the car... he meekly replies forgetting that he drove the robbers to the bank as part of the robbery team.

The writers later have his teen daughter steel a bus and hence become a criminal in her own right to wit felony auto theft and driving without a license. Nice going writers.

At the film's end there is literally no rational explanation of why Triple T, is not arrested for his felony bank robbery. Sure one of the other robbers says he was not part of their team but that is utter nonsense since the police have his fingerprints in the getaway car. Also Triple T was in possession, during most of the film, of the huge bag of the bank's stolen money. Congrats writers on an utterly nonsensical story.
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