The life of Shannon and Steven, a lovely couple, who have recently adopted a young gilt and they love her too much, has been changed completely, when their daughter has disappeared mysteriously, the thing that leads them to struggle against getting her back, but in doing so, they reveal many secrets of the agency they trust.
Carmine Gaeta and Luke Davies' screenplay is constructed from plot mechanics, and the emotional stakes grow less convincing with every twist of the screw.
While we can all agree that human trafficking is a despicable thing, it's also clear that this amazingly inept screenplay fails to do the issue justice.
A totally routine movie that tries to combine a message about trafficked children with a lowbrow thriller about loved ones going missing in a foreign country.
A message before the closing credits cites the widespread incidence of child trafficking, but any social import is lost. This isn't activism; it's by-the-numbers suspense.
There are no twists or even surprises, except the final realization that director Alan White is taking his culturally clueless, ineptly shot B-movie totally seriously.
In any movie where good people are being scammed by nefarious ripoff artists, there's the potential moment where the protagonists become so stupid and trusting that you lose all sympathy for them. That moment occurs about midway through Reclaim
