Catch the Fair One

Drama/thriller from 2021. It's about a female boxer's struggle to save her brother from trafficking men. The life of the lead role is a mess.

It's a great revenge movie. There is no nudity in the movie, but there is a sexual scene.

An ex-boxer (real life boxer Kali Reis) deliberately enters the world of sex trafficking in order to find her younger sister.

You won't even want to munch on your popcorn watching this, it's that good. The acting is great, and it's wonderful to see a story about native Indians being portrayed by them.

It's stark and bleak- filmed in the dead of winter in a northeast city, (Buffalo) yet the cold of the land matches the cold of the heartless men who treat trafficking woman as simply a business- capture them, drug them, photograph them, "advertise" them and sell them. Next.

On a "social message" side, in these current times of seeing the nation focus on one female white girl go missing, this movie discloses how hundreds of indigenous girls have gone missing to which our nation shrugs. It may not change the world,, but it can help enlighten it.

"Catch the Fair One" has a similar plot as other films about the search for a loved one who is kidnapped to be a sex slave. But there is a big difference in this one, a case linked to the disappearance of a native indigenous girl and its environment. As the police don't investigate the case, her old sister, a boxer infiltrates the world of girls' kidnapping and prostitution. Kali Reis as the boxer Kaylee is impressive, she personifies her character with such magnificence and emotion that it feels like we are watching not fiction but a documentary. There are some issues with the scripts but overall, director Josef Kubota Wladyka managed to capture and convey the feeling of helplessness that native people still experience and suffer today.

I was engaged the entire time. This film does a great job setting up the characters and story knowing that anyone wanting to watch this would be an independent thinker. The atmosphere is stark and bleak and exactly what it should be when dealing with this kind of subject matter. The movie was made this way intentionally and is its greatest strength. The violence is abrupt, the twists were clever enough and the ending was as realistic, in terms of how things would actually happen if anyone tried to be a vigilante. The only problems I had were that the main character, although did well in her acting debut, was very wooden when she had to deliver some of her dialogue. I also found that Kevin Dunn was under utilized and there could have been a bit more action. This felt like Winter's Bone but obviously missing the star power.

6.5/10.

I thought it will be an ok way to kill 2 hours. Instead it's a really good film. Slow built till the end. Very interesting plot and acting is A+. Really a good Indie thriller reminds me of 90s films. For that I recommend. If you like to have a hero as main actress that we know why she does what she need to do.