- Network: Lifetime
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 24, 2005
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Not only an important series, but a darned good, action-packed one.
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"Human Trafficking" manages edge-of-your-seat suspense and an unsettling blend of Dickensian horrors and documentary-style realism.
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It is unusually good: a harsh public-service message built into a clever, suspenseful thriller.
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The movie's tone teeters on the edge of self-righteousness, but the glassy-eyed numbness of the enslaved girls is a devastating portrayal of their living nightmare. [28 Oct 2005, p.77]
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Some parts work well; others don't.
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Like many Lifetime productions, this one is designed to make you stand up and take action on a hot-button issue. Unlike many, it's got the dramatic chops to keep you on your feet applauding.
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It’s a grim two hours... But it’s not overly explicit, and the script and talent are better than most Lifetime films.
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Perhaps inevitably, with all that focus on the educational component, the story gets short shrift.
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"Human Trafficking" is at once a sobering, tough-to-watch dramatization about girls taken from the streets of their hometowns around the world and sold into sexual servitude and a clichéd drama about said topic.
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It's an awful story, and it deserves a better production than this. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]
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Rarely rises above the level of cut-and-dried cops-and-bad-guys tale.
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Sorvino is as wooden as can be throughout. Perhaps she didn't connect with her poorly written role; perhaps she's just straining to understate.
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Starring a miscast Mira Sorvino, "Human Trafficking" bludgeons its point home for nearly four hours, and then closes with an honest-to-God speech to ensure that nobody missed it.
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Except for a few suspenseful sequences in which women and, occasionally, sympathetic parties try to escape the clutches of the slave traders, the miniseries is muddled, confused and diffuse.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 86 out of 99
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Mixed: 2 out of 99
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Negative: 11 out of 99
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Apr 9, 2018EXCELLENT! This will be etched in my brain forever. Hoping there is a Season 2. Obviously, the so called 'professional' critics have no taste.
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Jun 1, 2013
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CathyW.Dec 6, 2007