Reclaim

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Review: I wasn't that impressed with this film because it looked cheap and the director didn't do a good job with such and important concept. Its about a young girl who gets adopted by a loving couple who pay a lot of money to fast track the transaction. After obtaining the child and falling completely in love with her, she ends up getting kidnapped with a high price on her head. Its not the most original storyline that I have seen and it really lacked emotion from the actors, which was surprising because Ryan Phillipe usually puts in a good performance. It all seemed a bit cheap and I'm not surprised that it went straight to DVD. There are a few intense scenes when the couple are trying to rescue the young girl, but they weren't that amazing. The storyline was predictable from the beginning to the end and the gullible couple should have thought twice before handing over so much money to the people who were selling the girl. Man On Fire and Ransom dealt with this subject matter much better so this film has to get the thumbs down from me. Disappointing! Round-Up: John Cusack was surprisingly quite poor in this film and the loving couple, played by Ryan Phillipe and Rachelle Lefevre, seemed disconnected from each other, throughout the movie. It really is a made for TV type of film because you can tell that it was made with a low budget. I personally think that the movie would have been much better if the young girl was kidnapped from people who lived in Haiti because it would have seemed more real. Anyway, there are a couple of car chases which perk the movie up a little but the whole thing was quite dull and I struggled to stay awake. I recommend this movie to people who are into their drama/thrillers about a young girl who gets adopted by a young couple and gets kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom. 2/10

I will give this 5/10 just because, but as a film i did not love this especially the screen writing, the plot of the film was amazing but it was so predictable, and the ending made it worse, again because of the writing. The guy was locked in the trunk of a car with a dead police officer, doesn't realize he has a gun until the very end, despite him banging so hard which can only mean he wanted to get out desperately, therefore there is no way he would have forgotten about the end. Another thing that really put me off is the fact that the little girl was in the plot all along, at her age, she should have known better, and yet when they discovered she was in, they still told her they'd take her home, which nobody in his right mind would... so yeah, great plot, poor writing. Isn't there a TV show with a slightly similar plot?

It's got all the good checkboxes: they're rich, he's got a 'drinking problem', she's barren, he's an idiot, she's always right and always angry and self righteous. They both have terrible judgment almost criminally retarded bad. The bad guys are practically twirling their mustaches and cackling. I haven't watched it through yet but I figure at the end, red hair white girl will kick butt, get the child back and castrate her husband. Other reviews complain ceaselessly how paint by numbers this is. That's a good thing it's entirely vapid and stupid down to the music which is from other movies; probably some random Nick Cage trash. But cookie cutter is good. Fast food is good. Eat your burger. Stop whining.

Ryan Phillippe and Rachel LeFevre are a pretty well to do yuppie couple who are in Puerto Rico looking to collect a daughter they've adopted who was orphaned from the earthquake in Haiti. It's an adoption agency run by Jacki Weaver and the couple has laid down some heavy bread for their new daughter Briana Roy. Before they leave the little girl up and disappears. Phillippe and LeFevre have been good and had as police lieutenant Luis Guzman tells them. But the kidnappers are from finished, especially after the head kidnapper John Cusack hears how rich these two are. That was their undoing, they should have cleared out and run with what they had. Cusack is a particularly nasty piece of work, but he has a lot of problems controlling his henchman Jandres Burgos who has some real management issues. He dislikes Phillippe instantly and he dislikes each and every thing about him, looks, money, beautiful wife. Reclaim is a film about adoption scams. God knows there's a lot of third world kids out there and a lot of childless parents like Phillippe and LeFevre who can't have children and it's a terrible heartache that real bottom feeders like Cusack and Weaver seek to exploit. A lot of good location cinematography in Puerto Rico is featured with some nice shots of Old San Juan and the rain forest and beach. The cast is good and the climax is a thriller.

I never give movies a 10 as it's hard to find a movie that's perfect but I don't know what the heck these other reviewers were watching that this movie has such a low rating. This was a very good movie and if you are a fan of either John Cusack or Ryan Phillippe I think you will like it. I am a movie fanatic, I see many hundreds in a year and I can personally say I've seen so so many bad movies that I've almost given up on giving any I've not seen a chance. So many times I'll see a movie that has positive reviews with a high rating and after seeing it I find I'm disappointed. This is a good thriller that shows just what people will do for their children even when the child is newly adopted and hasn't yet become accustomed to the parents and a different way of life. I don't know why all the hate and negativity about this movie but if people who saw this thought it was bad I implore you to see the Great Gatsby as that was truly not a good movie and I love Leonardo DiCaprio. I have loved him forever and I make it a point to see any and everything he's been in but that movie was awful. The Counselor with Michael Fassbender and Penelope Cruz is another bad movie, I couldn't even finish it as it was so bad I wasn't able to. Stop hating on this movie and give it a chance.

John Cusack is fantastic in this great film that has a few nice twists to its tale...good to see him chewing up the scenery as a very believable villain...as for the negative reviews, well you choose to go with the ride, or you don't...any plot can be pulled to pieces if you so choose. This film has a strong well directed cast and a solid story line and as I mentioned before, some great twists. SPOILER ALERT - for the reviewer here who thought Ryan Phillipe pulled a gun from his sock while he was trapped in the car's trunk, he must not have been paying attention at that point. The gun was in the dead policeman's sock, the dead policeman who was in the trunk with Ryan...

I had very low expectations going in regarding this film, so I'd have to say it overall was somewhat better than I anticipated. Yes, it has some really ridiculous plot elements, but it does maintain a fair degree of tension throughout and might serve the viewer as simply an escape type flick. It also has quite the strong cast in John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Rachelle Lefevre, Jack Weaver, and Luis Guzman. Set in Puerto Rico, a well-off couple Steven (Phillippe) and Shannon (Lefevre) arrive on the island to pick up their newly adopted seven-year-old daughter Nina (Briana Roy). It's all been set up by an international adoption agency run by a Mrs. Reigert (Weaver), who greets them on their arrival and arranges for them to stay at a resort for a few days until Nina's passport comes through. While there, they're approached by the creepy and mysterious Benjamin (Cusack) and his two cohorts, and they start to feel quite uncomfortable with Benjamin's omnipresence and all his questions. Steven and Shannon change hotels, but soon find themselves right in the middle of a huge adoption scam called "reclaiming", and eventually even find themselves being kidnapped. All of this will eventually lead to a wild, prolonged, and rather melodramatic ending. All in all, as mentioned there's some gaping plot holes to be found in the movie, but I still thought there was enough here to be mildly entertaining. I've certainly seen a lot worse and felt it was worth the $1.59 I spent at redbox.

I'm voting 10 stars to spite these people here. This movie deserves at least a 6 star rating. I picked this movie OnDemand mostly because of Rachelle Lefevre,and her roll in Under the Dome. As expected, her acting was great. Now onto the case of the trunk shooting, I understand that a gun wouldn't open a trunk, but why are you guys being so nitpicky? Lots of movies have unrealistic scenes in them. If you ignore the small errors in this movie, you will be entertained. If you are nitpicky and analyze the movie,then yes,you will notice lots of small flaws. All I can say is that I enjoyed the movie and didn't expect such a low score. 8/10 Stars

Steven (Ryan Phillippe) and wife Shannon (Rachelle Lefevre) get caught up in a child trafficking scam when they go to Puerto Rico to adopt a young girl. The above is all you really need to know. If you take the language out this would be a tepid made-for-TV movie. The script is lame, the acting is okay but there is no pull here. In other words no real reason to continue watching. There are no twists. What you see is what you get and that is not saying much. If you are not familiar with human trafficking then this is a primer for you: Human Trafficking 101. Very disappointing. It should have had more impact, importance that would have showcased a very big worldwide problem: human trafficking. Didn't happen. Normally, I run to a John Cusack movie. Now I have to rethink that. Like I said: disappointing. (3/10) Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes.