Thought provoking, authentic, gritty and emotional.

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2014)

My, my, my! Ben Affleck, what did you do to make all those people so mad at you? Haven't read the tabloids for a long, long time but people definitely have a bee in their bonnet about Ben Affleck and poor Casey's getting it in the ear for the same bee....weird.
Anyway the film is all the things I said it was in my summary. People all of a sudden become directors, script writers, authors and actors when they dislike someone.
As far as directions go,
I followed the story perfectly from start to finish and I'm not American....as for the guy who wrote in saying he had to keep winding back his DVD because it had no subtitles....'what the hell man?!'
The acting...is supposed to pull you in and gain sympathy for some characters and vitriol or suspicion for others....right? Well if that's the case they did their jobs...I was there with them.
As for the plot. Is money the only thing that can motivate law enforcers to break the law? I don't believe so. Can a little girl of three be easily identified at the age of seven?....I don't think she can.
Will she talk about a woman she barely remembers four years later if she knows that means being taken away from people she loves?....I don't think she will.
Will people suspect a retired black police chief for having a blonde girl to take care of with a white wife, of kidnapping?....I wouldn't when there could be half a dozen explanations for it.
Sometimes I say,"Thank God for critics who can keep their personal prejudices out of reviews!".