It's a Hallmark Channel tier movie by its own merits. However, I think it's best trait is how restrained it was when showing a scene displaying a pedophile trying to fuck a kid or abusing it. There's no nudity or graphic scenes in it and I feel it doesn't need it, at most the main girl gets slapped. The nature of the situation itself is so disgusting and uncomfortable that no sane person would think "man, I wish I could see that child getting dicked. It would definitely enhance the movie". Which is the hint that Cuties didn't took apparently, never saw it. So, it automatically saves it from being soft core cp for pedophiles.
Sadly, everything falls apart when it's "religious quirks?" show up randomly. Like the main character's motivation to save some random Nicaraguan kid is how "god's children are not for sale", he is saying this while a violin is playing in the background. It's so corny and cringe whenever the movie tries to take itself seriously, the mediocre acting from the actors doesn't help.
Finally, I think the film could have benefited from a tragic ending. Those last 40 minutes were really hokey and the movie was overstaying its welcome. The issue of child trafficking in third world countries is a hopeless one, so giving it an appropriate finale would have been more palatable. Since, even after saving 53 children at a sting operation it wasn't enough for the mc. He REALLY had to reunite this ethnic family and save that little girl by going into a closed off territory full of guerrillas. Guerrillas that would chop his head the minute they saw a white guy attempting to enter their territory. But, no. He not only somehow killed the Guerrilla's boss (the fight scene was terribly choreographed and you couldn't see anything), he took the little girl the boss bought as a sex slave and escaped the jungle with groups of armed guerrillas chasing him the whole way.
But I guess the needed to follow the totally real and cool story of Christian fed saves the children. Down to the totally real event of infiltrating a guerrilla death zone by himself.
I'll give it this though, wasn't so painfully boring as opposed to Dial of Destiny. Literally fell asleep throughout the whole thing.
