The movie "Sold" in theory could have been a great movie about the horrors of sex slavery and human trafficking, but it is not. While the acting itself is good, there is little character development or dimension to any of the characters. A lot of the storyline lacks cohesiveness and hinges on assumption. There is no relatable timeline. We don't know if Lakshmi has been at the brothel a week or a year. Gillian Anderson, portrays a photographer/documentarian and David Arquette, an investigator working with local authorities to raid the brothel. Both Anderson and Arquette are almost irrelevant as characters. We see small snippets of them clumsily interwoven in the story. I wanted this movie to be more, it's a topic that's important, but it just did not hit the mark.
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Spenser Confidential
(2020)
Sorry Mark Wahlberg
5 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is so bad. Random black & white flashbacks, without any continuity, bad editing, strange music choices, a lot of bad acting and overacting. There are half a dozen well delivered jokes but it's campy and not in a good way. Full of Weirdness & stereotypes; dog on chains pulling a porch down, cat nailed to a front door, ridiculous bathroom brawl, corvette driving gangster in track suits, machete wielding criminals. It's just not good, and I like Mark Wahlberg, but this is bad.
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