Kidnapped for Christ

This looks like a half-a##ed documentary done by teenagers. The primary character (David) has people trying to help him but NO MENTION of where his parents are in all this. Also lots of gaps in the storyline. The film could've been cut in half with no loss of meaning.

The film seems to have a viewpoint but has scant support for that viewpoint, which comes across as weak and half-hearted. I wasted 85 minutes on this. Well, 75, because given the boredom and lack of tension, I skipped the last 10 minutes.

For a little independent free on Prime film, this one really packs a wallop. Don't think reeducation camps exist in modern America: think again. Kids taken against their will and shuttled off to foreign nations where they have no rights: outside the help of US Authotities. Think these are troubled kids who deserve what they are getting? Think again. We're introduced to David who is being hidden from his parents rich friends because he embarrasses them because he is gay. He left the U.S. involuntarily with a 4.0 GPA. What is Tue world.coming to you.

Teach your kids that if they are ever taken outside the country against their will they still have their unalienable rights as free men! Get to a U.S. Embassy!

God help these kids and their friends as they begin their healing process.

Deeply flawed doccie. It failed to convince me of its claims about the school. Though certainly there are questions about the school's conduct, Kidnapped for Christ doesn't offer any substance to back those. What it offers is anecdotal and even the interviews appear to be handpicked for some hope of controversy. At no point does it do what a proper documentary does: build a broad scope of all sides then narrow in on the flaws of what people said. Instead this was highly subjective and built its case not around the school or its inductees, but the gripes of a small group of pupils.

I'm not defending the school or saying that there wasn't something wrong. But this film is more interested in picking a certain bone than building a thorough piece of investigative journalism. In fact, this is hack journalism - seemingly making something out of nothing. Perhaps there was something, but the filmmakers failed to put any substance to it.

Jesus Camp and Fatherland are far better examples of the dangers of indoctrination camps, as well as how to tackle those subjects. Kidnapped for Christ is just lazy subjective bashing.

A documentary about one out of many so called Teenage Behaviour Modification Programs which set out to change so called troubled teens with the help of good ol' Jesus Christ, strict rules and tough counsellors.

Which might not sound bad to some, but when you look at the people who's there for instance a guy called David who's sent there by his parents solely for being homosexual you have to raise an eyebrow.

And how it can even be possible legally to literally kidnap these kids and taking them there is beyond bizarre.

And the whole establishment just screams religious fanatics cult.

It's a small-scale documentary made by a very small crew and there will probably be made a bigger scale documentary at some point but perhaps it was the size of the crew that made it possible for them to actually come behind closed doors of the camp, although there were most likely many on-goings that the constitution withheld from the crew.

So yeah worth seeing.

My dad essentially tried (and still is trying) to force Catholicism on me since birth, but I couldn't imagine what these kids had to go through and how terrible their parents are. Forsaking your own child and not talking to them for possibly YEARS!?!? This is an infuriating film for the truth it exposes. David was punished by his parents because of a way he feels inside. I hope they enjoy hell, if it is real.

Push someone towards religion and they will turn and run as fast as possible, because all I can see now is brainwashed individuals clamoring for something that they cannot properly articulate or even possibly hope to prove. Throw your false condemnations and religious voodoo and I'll walk away shaking my head.