Stolen Girl

Honestly, I don't even know what to write about Stolen Girl. The movie just didn't connect with me at all - emotionally, it felt empty. There was nothing special or memorable about it; the story moved without any real impact or engagement. It's one of those films you watch once and instantly forget. Overall, a very flat experience that fails to leave any impression.

Stolen Girl is an excellent drama, thriller starring Kate Beckinsale as Maureen, a mother who loses her daughter to kidnapping and goes on an 8 year mission to find her and bring her back.

It's a well told and well paced drama with some decent action and espionage to keep the stakes high and the plot rolling.

But ultimately it's a story about a mother who will risk everything to get her daughter back and the film does a fine job of portraying the emotional, political and ethical dilemmas surrounding why these kinds of events really do happen in the real world.

An exciting and moving story, excellently told. Highly recommended! :-)

The movie was good. It had a nice plot, and even though some parts felt a little rushed and not fully explained, I still liked the ending, it wasn't the usual type of ending, which was refreshing. But what I didn't like was how they portrayed the Middle East, I mean, it's 2025, and they still show the region in this outdated way. Everything had this red filter, all the cars were super old, and the neighborhood they showed looked ancient. Even the market and the houses looked like they were stuck in the past. None of the cars were modern at all.

They were supposed to be showing Lebanon, but honestly it looked like Lebanon in the 70s. It's just such a bad and lazy way of showing the Middle East and Arabs. We're way past that. Honestly, it felt really stereotypical.

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.

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.