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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAlthough the screenplay by Vizinberg and Lee Peterkin holds little in the way of surprises, it does offer a taut storyline and complex characterizations.
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe film leans almost exclusively on the focused performances of its two leads, who create a credibly barbed chemistry that goes a long way toward distracting us from the film's low-budget deficiencies.
- 50Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneCargo can feel like a "film about human trafficking" from beginning to end.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceWith the certainty of bad melodrama, Cargo moves gradually into superficial moral complexity, an inevitable display of heroics, and the perfunctory title card ensuring us that sex slavery is indeed a real-life problem.
- 40VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibIts provocative subject matter, though seriously treated, qualifies it as a dark-horse candidate for latenight cable.