Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
I’ll be honest here: I really wanted to like Trade of Innocents. Human trafficking is one of the largest criminal enterprises, and it poses a global problem. And this film, directed by Christopher Bessette, aims to raise some much-needed awareness and action, including links in the credits, promotional materials, and the film’s own website to Justice-Generation, which has information on resources for advocacy and action to prevent and combat trafficking. I admire Bessette’s attempts to use film as a way to get the message out, which makes it all the harder to write this review, given that this movie is just very clunky.
Alex Becker (Dermont Mulroney) is a former American soldier and a human trafficking investigator operating in Cambodia. His organization is working to bring down a slaver named Duke (Trieu Tran), who is in the process of securing very young virgins for foreign pedophiles.
I’ll be honest here: I really wanted to like Trade of Innocents. Human trafficking is one of the largest criminal enterprises, and it poses a global problem. And this film, directed by Christopher Bessette, aims to raise some much-needed awareness and action, including links in the credits, promotional materials, and the film’s own website to Justice-Generation, which has information on resources for advocacy and action to prevent and combat trafficking. I admire Bessette’s attempts to use film as a way to get the message out, which makes it all the harder to write this review, given that this movie is just very clunky.
Alex Becker (Dermont Mulroney) is a former American soldier and a human trafficking investigator operating in Cambodia. His organization is working to bring down a slaver named Duke (Trieu Tran), who is in the process of securing very young virgins for foreign pedophiles.
- 4/9/2013
- by Percival Constantine
- Obsessed with Film
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