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SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Blistering performances.

As a fellow Human Rights filmmaker, this film is accurately portrays this aspect of the former Marxist Eastern Europe sex slave trade. As a director, I'm proud of the film's director for fighting for the toughest final cut, I know it cuts down on marketability, to have such a real scene towards the end, but it is vital for the integrity and longevity of the film.My only criticism is that it doesn't show the influence of ex-Marxists (Communists) in the Ukraine starting point of the sex slave trade. I would have liked to have seen about 20 of the brutal rape and murder scenes all through the film, and not just as the shocking climax. But I'm more from the Tarkovsky school of total inescapable immersion in the subject.One of the top 20 films of the last 40 years.

Rachel Weisz stars as Kathryn Bolkovac, a Lincoln Nebraska police officer. This is not the savvy Rachel Weisz role we are used to seeing. The beginning of the film tries to dummy down her character. Needing money she accepts a job in Bosnia as an observer, quickly moving up to a position of authority. She uncovers a sex trade scandal which involves the local police as well as her fellow co-workers and several international agencies.Attempting to do the right thing is a challenge especially when the victims fear to cooperate.This is not an exploitation film as the topic might suggest. There are no horrific graphic scenes and the nudity is on Polaroid photos. The script did not build the suspense, drama and excitement as one might expect. The actors were not as convincing as they should have been. Worth a view, but not owning.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity.

I would have given it a higher rating but the closing statement completely blew up the meaning of the entire story and causes of the trafficking. The closing comments stated that the government continues to do business with private contractors as though they were the primary problem. Did they forget about all the government and quasi-government organizations including the UN that were not just involved but were complicit in the scandal? In fact Bolkovac worked for a private organization. Her work would have never come forward if she worked for the government and in fact she would have never even been on the scene. I suppose if she had been paid out of some government coffer the misdeeds would never have happened in the first place or would have been more excusable.This type of guilt by association is quite common by press, entertainment and government types. Can't they ever get at the real root causes rather than demonizing and the injection of their socialist bombast?

Every woman and teenage girl should see this. Watching this will save lives.I didn't realize what this movie was about and had gotten it confused with another whistle blowing type movie, so this movie sat in my Netflix queue for over a year until I was home sick with the flu. I started watching this and was dumbfounded. I've seen other movies like Trade, Savior, Welcome to Sarajevo, etc. and was familiar with some of the politics going on during the war, but had never heard about this woman or what she exposed. This has now been moved to the top of my movie recommendation list.I beg you - watch this movie!