Trade is a dreadfully hollow film, empty of everything except pretension and self-importance posing as art.
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02/28/08
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Trade (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 56
Fresh: 15
Rotten:41
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Consensus: With an exploitative style that seems more suited for TV shows like CSI, Trade's message about the reality of child exploitation is easily lost.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Crime/Conspiracy, Drama, Kidnapping And Missing Persons, Thriller, Rape, Exploitation
Theatrical Release: Sep 28, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $118,086
Synopsis: At once soft-hearted and hard-edged, TRADE provides a compassionate look at an ugly world. In Mexico City, men kidnap13-year-old Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) with the intent of selling her virginity to the highest bidder. Young Polish... [More]
Starring: Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Paulina Gaitan, Alicja Bachleda
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
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Reviews for Trade
Just misses making its urgent point, which was surely the purpose of this emotionally stirring, troubling film, by turning up the excessively convoluted melodrama, and turning its eyes away from the sociopolitical issues that sex slavery thrives on.
01/20/08
A documentary about sex trafficking might have been more powerful. Dramatizing the subject in this fashion, with a race-against-time road trip, breathless online bidding and a couple of different happy endings, simply cheapens it.
12/03/07
Yes, a conventional documentary about sex slavery would probably be more illuminating. It would also be more unbearable.
10/26/07
Trade has cojones for trying to lay the kind of political guilt trip it does on us with its sham aesthetics and lurid telenovela-writ-large storyline.
10/19/07
What ultimately tips the scales is its determination to avoid sentimentality.
10/06/07
The filmmaker tries to keep the energy up and the audience engaged by incorporating stylistic touches from the Michael Bay 101 crib sheet, whirling the camera around characters in crisis and lacing scenes with hack guitar rock.
10/05/07
Top Critic Grim, hard to take, and nightmare-producing, Trade is not for the faint of heart.
10/03/07
Top Critic Treats sex slavery with roughly the same amount of tact and complexity with which the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target treated homelessness.
10/02/07
Top Critic
Trade has telegraphed the most sordid examples of the international child sex trade into a small, somewhat exploitative thriller.
09/28/07
Other than showing how a trafficking pipeline might work, Trade is a total misfire, a strange attempt at making a buddy movie featuring a morose Kevin Kline and a 17-year-old Mexican boy looking for his kidnapped sister.
09/28/07
Top Critic Alternately gripping and frustrating, Trade is a regrettable disappointment.
09/28/07
There's really no nice way to put this: Trade wants to be the Traffic of sex slavery, and it fails at that task in ways that are alternately dreary, pretentious and vaguely sleazy.
09/28/07
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