Hope Lost (2015)

Pretty Good

Great Film overall

Excellent but underrated film

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This film should be trashed, as it's trash.On the pretext of "exposing" human sex trafficking, we are given a blow-by-blow litany of degrading images of sadism. Michael Madsen and Mischa Barton must be either desperate, desensitized and swimming in a spiritless artistic swamp or deranged. Maybe all three.What a terrible reflection on our society that this is portrayed as "entertainment". Shameful.

I feel first ripped off by the plot description of the front page of IMDb for this movie. Can someone PLEASE fix it??? The first several words are true, but... what the hell? There are no wishes, magic lamps, etc. OK, I was sucked in and trashed thoroughly. Congratulations.There's forced prostitution, sex, nudity, and even lesbian themes, but there's also blood, violence, sadism, and darkest hopelessness.I give this one 3 stars only because it keeps your attention and the acting isn't the worst ever. Otherwise, I came out of watching this a little more depressed and filthy-feeling.Get over your self-congratulations for "emulating" real life, Hollywood. MOST of the time I go to see a movie to feel better coming out. Make me laugh, give me hope, have me cheering... for something or someone (other than a quick death for the supposedly main characters!).

This is so bad its almost funny.It has no story and involves someone being anally raped for no reason thats clear at all just for the sake of it. Mischa Barton has the funniest accent, she keeps slipping from Irish to Romanian to American. There is no explanation why there is not a single Italian in the whole film even though it is set in Rome.The fact Michael Madsen is in the film says a lot and is usually warning enough but its almost worth watching just to see how bad film making can be, I feel like its worth watching just for an understanding of how bad it can get. Violence for absolutely no reason, no back story in anyway. The person who gave this 8 stars must work for the production company.I am astounded how anyone could even watch this and please use this as a warning, do not waste any of your life on this.

I cannot understand why or how anyone would give this movie a rating above one. It's a movie that I'd perhaps expect to be asked to watch if I were taking a degree in clinical psychology or had any interest in the workings of a psychopathic mind, which I do not. Dark not noir-dark, just dark and depressing. I don't particularly seek out stories that help me maintain a rose-colored outlook on humanity, but neither do I seek out movies that portray only the darker side of a certain type of life that surely exists but thankfully one that I don't have to embrace in any way. There was not a single character in this movie that one could either sympathize or empathize with in any way whatsoever and that doesn't make for an interesting or engaging movie. Sewers and sewer rats exist, psychotic people exist, sick lives are lived, but why make a movie about any of that? I watched the movie based upon another review which was very positive and I see that the review has a lot of likes - all I can say is that's sad. Basically a very disturbing and sick story which, although well-acted, will very quickly be forgotten. It's like a garishly over-the-top remake of a low budget 1950's or 1960's Italian B 'horror' movie but takes itself seriously. Times and tastes change but not always for the better; we went from 'The Hills Are Alive . . .' (hum the rest - it's okay) to 'The Hills Have Eyes' - into this kind of social cesspool movie. I always try to find some redeeming quality in any movie I watch but in this case I can't say anything good about it.