not horrible nor great

Admirable film.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The Truth of TradeBy: Hayli Marie VaughnThis is not a uplifting movie. Trade made me realize how awful and cruel this world really is. I never thought sex trafficking actually happened but after watching this movie it has shown me just how easy it really is. Trade really spoke to me. In many ways did I find this movie realistic. Adriana's (Paulina Gaitan) mother told her not to ride the bike because it was too dangerous, and her being a teenager she did it anyway. I had a gut feeling something bad would happen. Jorge (Cesar Ramos) is a big brother who is hanging around the wrong group of kids. Veronica (Alicja Bachleda-Curus) is a mom who wanted to make money for her son and ended up getting kidnapped. This broke my heart because all she wanted to do is support her family. Ray is a policeman that has been looking for his daughter whom he thinks got sold into sex trafficking. Adriana is a young teenage girl who gets taken into this cruel environment. Luckily she meets Veronica and she makes her happy. Veronica is like a big sister to Adriana in this time. Veronica is always looking out for her and calming her down. This to me made me feel good on the inside because even though Veronica was in a tough time she was still looking out for someone other than herself.All Jorge wants to do is get his sister back and Ray helps him do so. After a lot of searching and following Jorge found his sister and Ray 'bought' her. This was an uplifting time in the movie because i was so scared that some random would buy her instead.I've never actually thought sex trade was something that actually happened often so this movie to me was a real eye opener. Although there is a lot of rape, molestation, and abuse in this movie it truly is a movie teenagers should watch.

Slavery trade I recently just watched the movie Trade .It is so heartbreaking that it would keep you on the edge of your seat .It so sad to see how fast anyone could be human trafficked.just watching the movie was sad. It was horrifying to see girls and women have to go through the things that they was made to do or the guys would kill them.Cesar Ramos (Jorge) started all the mess, but in the end he was just trying to get his sister, Paulina Gaitan (Adriana) . They was really good actors, especially Adriana. She had a lot of emotional parts and for her to show all that emotion was really incredible.Jorge had a huge roll in the movie ,Jorge showed in the movie how much it would take to get someone back. This movie was a real eye opener to me . My parents use to tell me good advice, but I use to take advantage of them. watching Trade made me realize I should listen to my parent's advice.Finally, I love how this film goes from horrifying to heart- wrenching. It would be a great movie for teenagers to watch because it will show them that your parent's advice is not always wrong . If i was you i would not take advantage of it because something horrifying could happen at any given time.

Trade: A World Unknown I saw Trade and felt like I was part of it all. It is a drama about a young man trying to get his sister back, and on the way he gets an unlikely accomplice. This movie was cast-ed very well, the actors bring their roles to life and make you feel what they are going through. The performance given by Cesar Romas (Jorge) was especially impressive. He gave a phenomenal performance, and Cesar made sure you, a viewer, feel as if you were experiencing and feeling exactly what he felt and the suffering that he endured. Kevin Kline (Ray) put on an amazing performance, Ray is an insurance fraud investigator. You wouldn't see this alliance coming, as Jorge is very leary of police and white people. This movie brings a world that is largely unknown to light. It shows just how easy it is for a girl to be taken and get caught up in this terrible life, and how hard it is to get out of. The audience will see a side of this world that everyone would like to believe doesn't exist, a side of the world that is hidden and unseen by normal citizens. The viewer will see how easy it is for the people who do this to get away with it and how it is so normal for them and these poor people. This movie will make you wonder just how messed up one person would have to be to do that stuff to another human being.

Trade: A Good Nail BiterTrade is definitely a product of the more Hollywoodified side of the film industry. That's not a bad thing though. Trade leaves the viewer in a state of fixation in the first fifteen minutes. The film writers do a very good job of building up action, executing that action and cooling down; this is rinsed and repeated various times throughout the film. This makes for a movie that doesn't compensate suspense for plot-or vice versa. Therefore, all necessary components of storytelling are all in the right places while achieving maximum amount of suspense. Trade is by no means dry; but one of it's main characters Ray (Kevin Kline) can make the film drag in certain areas. Maybe I am one of the only people to think that his acting was uninspired and very blunt; however, it could've very well been meant to be that way by the script writers. The narrative and shear amount of refinement in this film make up for that. Some critics will dog this film for being unrealistic. To be completely honest, there's a lot of unrealistic occurrences in this film. Without spoiling major parts of the plot, a good visual of this is when the young girl, Adriana (Paulina Gaitan), is abducted. Neither her mother, nor her brother Jorge (Cesar Ramos) go to the police at anytime. Instead Jorge talks to what is perceived to be a private investigator who simply brushes him off and basically tells him "good luck". Despite the unrealism in this film, without it there wouldn't be a film. That's where this film excels; it pushes the boundaries of the real world on purpose to paint a picture of what enslaved people in the sex trade is like. But it also knows where to draw those lines to keep an audience entertained. Another nice feature in the film is that in fast paced scenes the camera work is shaken up and sporadic (though not to a point you'll get motion sick or can't tell what's going on) to add a chaotic effect for the viewer's point of view. However, the camera work throughout the entirety of the film is very refined. There's no haze and the lighting is great.Trade kept me entertained throughout the entirety of the film and I really was engaged. I constantly tried to tie things together as to what would happen next in the plot and desired more and more from the film. Despite its minimal amount of unrealism and spotty acting in some areas, the film was overall entertaining and a very good work of art. If the producer's goal was to make a film that depicted what sex trafficking is like for the victims-and even traffickers, as one trafficker, Manuelo (Marco Perez) struggles with the moral dilemma of trafficking girls- I'd say they did their job and did it well.