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Inspired by actual events.
Hard up Nebraska Police Office Kathryn Bolkovac (Academy Award®-winner Rachel Weisz) accepts a well-paying UN peacekeeping job courtesy of a private military contractor working on behalf of the UN. She arrives in post-war Bosnia expecting a harmonized international effort, but instead finds chaos and disorder against a back drop of simmering ethnic tensions.
When a brutally injured young woman lands in the UN s care, Kathryn risks her own safety as she unearths an organised and brutal underworld of sex trafficking. Despite attempts to thwart her investigation and threats on her life she fights to uncover the truth and traces the path of criminality to a shocking source.
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Hard up Nebraska Police Office Kathryn Bolkovac (Academy Award®-winner Rachel Weisz) accepts a well-paying UN peacekeeping job courtesy of a private military contractor working on behalf of the UN. She arrives in post-war Bosnia expecting a harmonized international effort, but instead finds chaos and disorder against a back drop of simmering ethnic tensions.
When a brutally injured young woman lands in the UN s care, Kathryn risks her own safety as she unearths an organised and brutal underworld of sex trafficking. Despite attempts to thwart her investigation and threats on her life she fights to uncover the truth and traces the path of criminality to a shocking source.
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* Cast/crew interviews
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A brutally important film… Rachel Weisz is quite superb --Screen Daily
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I watched this in a "well, there's nothing else on" moment - and thanks be there wasn't anything else on else I'd have missed out! This is a nice, taut thriller with a few twists in it's tail, as an American cop-turned-UN-peacekeeper arrives in the war-torn Balkans to help train up a remodelled local police force in the wake of the ethnically-driven conflict there. At first all seems straightforward until a distraught girl turns up and the heroin, Balkovic, unearths a human traffiking network. Corruption is rife and she soon learns that it runs far deeper than it should, and in directions it shouldn't. Risking life and limb in the face of organised criminals hell-bent on protecting their trade, Balkovic sets out to bring the racket down and save the girls, making some unpleasant discoveries about the character of her fellow countrymen on the way.
Allegedly based on real events, Weisz brings Balkovic to life adeptly and is ably supported by the likes of Vanessa Redgrave to turn out a nicely presented feature that I'll definitely watch again.
Allegedly based on real events, Weisz brings Balkovic to life adeptly and is ably supported by the likes of Vanessa Redgrave to turn out a nicely presented feature that I'll definitely watch again.
This is a harder film to watch than I expected. Why? Well, the trailer indicated it was going to be a fairly straightforward conspiracy thriller about Rachel Weisz's honest cop going to work for the UN and discovering fishy things about a human trafficking ring. What I didn't expect was for the film to go so deeply into what happens to the girls involved, and the sheer levels of corruption needed to keep such things from being investigated properly.
It's largely depressing viewing, and the degredation of the women is chilling and heartbreaking, not least because so many of the men meant to be protecting them both inside and outside the UN seem utterly heartless and even greatly amused by their pleas.
We then have Weisz to thank for keeping the film's head above water with a likeable, very human and identifiable performance, acting as a flawed but decent human rudder to steer us through the harshness.
Trust me when I say that this is neither a date movie, nor one to watch to cheer yourself up, but it is very well performed, very well written, and very emotionally moving and certainly deserves viewing. And if anything else, it goes a long way to re-confirm that Weisz is a star who deserves to be carrying more movies of her own.
It's largely depressing viewing, and the degredation of the women is chilling and heartbreaking, not least because so many of the men meant to be protecting them both inside and outside the UN seem utterly heartless and even greatly amused by their pleas.
We then have Weisz to thank for keeping the film's head above water with a likeable, very human and identifiable performance, acting as a flawed but decent human rudder to steer us through the harshness.
Trust me when I say that this is neither a date movie, nor one to watch to cheer yourself up, but it is very well performed, very well written, and very emotionally moving and certainly deserves viewing. And if anything else, it goes a long way to re-confirm that Weisz is a star who deserves to be carrying more movies of her own.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Would a company put out a film without sound? No you would not expect them to do so, but this is what they have done with this, as they have not included the option to select any subtitles. Subtitles, are the sound, for deaf and hard of hearing people, and it's a digrace, that with todays technology, that they dont included subtitles. I am not deaf, but hard of hearing deaf, and I struggled, to know what was being said, even though I turned up the volume very loud on my Panasonic TV, because they had not included subtitles, so only 2 stars from me, because of the missing subtitles.
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