Great acting can't save this piece of garbage

Rating: 3/10 (13 December 2019)

The good acting of the cast aside, this movie is disgusting. Let me say this now: infidelity in marriage is NEVER acceptable. What Charlie did, regardless of how unfair he thinks he's being treated in terms of not receiving his wife's affection is nowhere even remotely close to justification.
That being said: this film's portrayal of a messy divorce is one-sided and clearly pushing an agenda.
Let's ignore the flat cinematography, the pedestrian editing, and the dialog written by a 20 year old art student major and consider the fact this film is clearly pushing an agenda. Nicole lies, helps commit a crime, and manipulates Charlie because of her own sense of entitlement for some misguided sense of "empowerment." At the same time, Charlie is treated as a inept moron without her. The production company they have praises Nicole incessantly because of (no joke) her suggestion of arm placement for a performance. It is also custody propaganda where the idea of women wiping out a man's entire livelihood is justified because "men are accepted for their flaws where women are not." Are you kidding me? What ridiculous nonsense. It's as if the writer behind this dumpster thinks their own misandry is justification for every horrible act committed against a man.
This is ridiculous. The parody of the fight scene in social media between the two is the least of this film's problems. Women DOMINATE in divorce proceedings, and (as somebody who have seen family members go through divorce) the men are disproportionately punished in the proceedings. If this was an out-and-out "man bad, woman good, she gets custody and everything is right with the world" story, that would be one thing. However, this is trying to come across as an ambiguous tale when this woman clearly chooses to lie to her husband, make him suffer, destroy every aspect of his life, and use her son like a prop in her machinations. And the film treats this as justified, and it is rather sickening.
Art doesn't need to conform to your sensibilities of morality. It doesn't need to make you feel happy. The acting is great, no one can deny this. However, in the world of brutal litigation in divorce proceedings, this film is quite abhorrent in how the message appears to encourage pre-emptive, brutal, and vindictive actions to cause the most amount of suffering is rewarded in full. What an appalling piece of dreck.