3/10
Interesting subject but not a very good movie
31 October 2005
Warning: Spoilers
This movie touches on a terrible problem but presents it in such an unrealistic manner that it is impossible to take it seriously. Anyone with any common sense even if you had no knowledge of how human trafficking works would understand that the way the movie presents the subject is absurd. Mira Sorvino is terribly miscast and not at all believable as a Russian. Actually the only part of the movie that is believable is when she is immediately detected as a fraud by her by the traffickers although their reason - that a mail order bride would lie about her age (which is probably the case 80% of the time) was also ridiculous. Nadia's father infiltrating the group and ending up immediately in America with her daughter but not immediately contacting the police for help or walking away with his daughter when he easily could have was also ridiculous. It just goes on and on... You would have to live an incredibly sheltered life to believe this movie resembles anything close to reality and it does a horrible injustice to it's subject matter.
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