Film Review – Skin Trade

There’s a fine line between nobility and exploitation, and “Skin Trade” is just barely able to maintain balance between the extremes. Co-scripted and starring Dolph Lundgren, the feature endeavors to expose the evils of human trafficking, using the action genre as sugar to help the medicine go down. It’s impossible to argue with such intention, especially when dealing with the world’s wickedness. However, “Skin Trade” doesn’t follow through on its potential for horror, quickly devolving into a roughhouse revenge picture that consumes cliché by the pound, spending more time perfecting explosions, kicks, and chases than it does sharpening its focus on human violations. Purpose is pure, but the execution favors anarchy over sympathy. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com