Not enough horsepower

Rating: 7/10 (21 January 2016)

Loaded with great performances. I didn't know Liev Schreiber could be lovable. Or Stanley Tucci likable, let alone great. The main problem here is you have a story with heavy subject matter, and a realistic portrayal about how a group of journals might go about solving the problem. But the realism doesn't allow for a dramatic engaging look into the issue that gets to its core, that is hard hitting enough for the subject's weight. Basically it needed someone in the movie to go, "It's about child rape. What's the moral grey area of that assh-les?" Instead Mark Ruffalo goes ham but not really. "If it takes a village to raise the child, it takes a village to abuse one." It needed more of that.