Stolen Girl

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! :-)

A sad little movie, with fairly sad acting.

Also sad that Kate Beckinsale, who needed no enhancement to her looks, has decided that her fading career would be re-energised by pumping her lips up into a permanent pout. She now just looks ridiculous. It hasn't improved her acting skills.

The plot is sound, the ending is a little different, the setting is questionable.

Not the worst I have ever seen but close.

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what I didn't like was how they portrayed the Middle East, I mean, it's 2025, and they still show the region in this outdated way.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.

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.