Movie review score
5
Not Today ( 2013 ) :-
A heart touching and a thought provoking movie about one of deadliest poisons of our country India relating to Child trafficking and Sex labor . Surprised to see its a Hollywood movie instead and director Jon Van Dyke decided to make a film to portray the problems here in India and to make a attempt to be a eye opener for such issues. They say this movie is also based on true events. In short terms a rich teenager with a wealthy dad living a dream life in states decides to go to India with his friend for a summer vacation and what follows his visit is the life turning events making him to take extreme steps to save a small kid from human traffickers and did he succeed with it or what all hurdles he has to go through for saving this child will form core part of the story.
One bad thing about this movie is that the poor performance delivered by both Walid Amini ( Kiran ) father character and that little girl Annika as their portrayal felt so unreal and didn't deliver the exact impact as these characters supposed to have produced for such a script. Their way of talking telugu was horrible instead they could have rather choose to talk in hindi for better purpose . It was so unmatching and that little girl really couldn't produce that intensity this movie expected from her. But Cody Longo ( Caden Welles ) the protagonist was the only life saver for this film with such a perfect acting and giving life to this script. He is damn good and made it perfect what the director ordered. Adding to that they could have avoided invoking too much religious beliefs in to this film making it look like a more Christianity based movie . But that said what matters is the message this movie delivers and in that regards the director was rock-on and this is not a bad movie to be missed.
