The true story of Chong Kim—abducted into the sex trade as a young teen—and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Cruelty, bloodletting and death are evident throughout (frequently occurring just outside the frame), and Griffith's laudable discretion actually intensifies their impact.
– Jeff Shannon,
Seattle Times,
2 May 2013
fresh:
Griffiths lays bare a many-tentacled trafficking system sickening in its reach.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar 2013
fresh:
A quite moving performance comes from Jamie Chung as Eden, repulsion sliding into fearful acceptance without the extinction of hope.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
27 Mar 2013
rotten:
Nearly every second is taken up with the horrors inflicted upon the heroine by the sorriest bunch of good ol' boy sadists since "Deliverance."
– Farran Smith Nehme,
New York Post,
22 Mar 2013
fresh:
Griffiths and her screenwriter, Rick Phillips Jr., manage the tricky business of evoking the specific horrors of sex slavery without languishing in the lurid and graphic.