Stolen Girl

Hate to break it to the other reviewers, but Lebanon in the 90s and early 2000s did not look like the USA in the 1990s and early 2000s. If you're having trouble realizing when the movie actually takes place, look at the phones, the computer monitors, the CD players, the television sets. The movie isn't set in 2025. Also, lip injections are ALWAYS a bad idea.

Besides that, it's entertaining. Much better than The Thunderbolts.

10/10 is for Beckinsale, I'd give the movie a 7.5.

Mother loses her child to international abduction and keeps looking for her over a decade while "rescuing" other "lost" children.. and based on a true story?

That poster is quite misleading, and the casting isn't helping. Kate Beckinsale looks like she is still recovering, and while her acting is good enough, it was the idea behind the film that helped me enjoy it.. not the performance.

This isn't really an action thriller, or at least it doesn't feel like it, it is definitely drama. And while it somehow feels underwritten and the execution makes it seem like a TV streaming, it gets the message across while remaining a heavy topic and though to swallow. It helps that I always enjoy stories that teach me about things that happen in the world I've never even heard of.

I don't think the film is particularly good, but it is efficient and not at all bad.

I think it's a good movie, there are no over-the-top action scenes in which there is an unnatural amount of blood. The actors are also good. The events are moving. It's true that Kate's lip augmentation sometimes takes the focus off the film, but she plays her role wonderfully. Scott shouldn't be judged independently of his father, I like his performance.

STOLEN GIRL I I With a reasonable premise, Stolen Girl could have taken its ideas to solid ground, but it moves incredibly quick and doesn't make sense to why the lead character is doing what she did. I mean the child is kidnapped then before you know it she's become someone kidnapping other kids from similar circumstances? Did we miss a few scenes? The original idea too disappears as the movie becomes a vigilante action film. James Kent loses control of it all very quickly and it doesn't add up to anything. Kate Beckinsale as usual is miscast and way too glamorous for the role.

Not sure why the reviews are average. It's a very good movie, based on true events. It's really pulled on the heart strings; the years not moving on for the grieving parent, but life continues for the stolen and their kidnapping parent.

There could have been more depth to the characters, but all in all I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and it's well worth watching.