Typical missing kid story but with confusing plot

Rating: 3/10 (12 October 2016)

There have been so many movies about this topic lately one would think our streets are teeming with creeps looking for kids to steal around every corner. While stranger abductions are less common say, being struck by lightening or drowning in a bath tub, it makes for good drama and thus, scores of "missing kid taken by pedos" films come out every year.
In this hackneyed gem, we are set in a tough south Boston hood with a bunch of actors straining to over do accents. Ben Affleck's brother plays a private dick who is hired for his hood connections to help the real cops find the little missing girl. Then, things start to get twisted, and a confusing plot unfolds.
It's kind of ironic that Morgan Freeman plays a character who thinks vigilante kidnapping is OK, remember in "Seven" he told us "when you have that child you spoil him or her whenever you can"...... well, it sounded like good advice at the time. Now , we have a country that has the most spoiled teenagers ever, growing into dysfunctional adults who are never going to be able to contribute.
This film shows a drug addicted mom who seems partially responsible for the kids disappearance, and some side plots that include Affleck's brother vigilante killing a pedo. Nothing really new here, same old Hollywood message- " if an adult male even MIGHT have HARMED a child he deserves to die, and "you can act as judge, jury and executioner", also, "kids good, adults bad". No wonder we have the highest population of men in prison on the planet.
In real life , most kids who are murdered are done in by their parents (95 percent), and said parent is usually the mother, so , actually most kids killed are killed by women. But this film shows the typical pedophile killer, and inserts the question " is it OK to abduct a kid if he is in a bad home"?
We now see the results of two decades of spoiling our kids rotten. I think the question is "are we getting to the point where we are going to start removing kids from suspect quality homes"? Maybe we are already there. I think the Morgan Freeman character means well, but they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.