Critic Reviews
| 88 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Not only an important series, but a darned good, action-packed one. |
| 80 |
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
"Human Trafficking" manages edge-of-your-seat suspense and an unsettling blend of Dickensian horrors and documentary-style realism. |
| 80 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
It is unusually good: a harsh public-service message built into a clever, suspenseful thriller. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Some parts work well; others don't. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Andrew Clevenger
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] |
| 70 |
Newsday Diane Werts
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. |
| 60 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
It’s a grim two hours... But it’s not overly explicit, and the script and talent are better than most Lifetime films. |
| 50 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
"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. |
| 50 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Perhaps inevitably, with all that focus on the educational component, the story gets short shrift. |
| 50 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
It's an awful story, and it deserves a better production than this. [31 Oct 2005, p.39] |
| 30 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Rarely rises above the level of cut-and-dried cops-and-bad-guys tale. |
| 20 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
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. |
| 20 |
Variety
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. |
| 10 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
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. |
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