Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Ghoulumbe Better than most people think

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Michael Ledo Sophia (Francesca Agostini) hoping to be a film star travels to Rome where she is forced to work for Manol (Michael Madsen) a pimp. She becomes one of Rome's Campfire Girls. The story then turns weird at the end.This is one of the worst films I have seen with Madsen and Trejo. The plot went nowhere. The film is mostly shot at night with Sophia being tested and confronting a number of fetishes. The dialogue wasn't great .Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, minimum nudity, mostly from the back although I understand there may be versions with more nudity.

alanaronald 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.

djohnba The movie overall was interesting enough to watch the entire time. The acting was superb, but the storyline is depressing. This review contains **spoilers. This movie is about sex trafficking and the sexual exploitation of women which is a serious issue that should be addressed in cinematic media. The title captures the essence of the despicable and deplorable outcome of sexual exploitation. The movie provided with a few moments of hope in which the main character seemed to have found someone who was willing to rescue her, but those were just twists in the movie to keep you clinging onto hope.As the movie comes to an end, you may likely become upset, disappointed, or depressed with the climatic ending. I give the movie a 5 because it was entertaining, but left you thinking that the movie was just flat out horrible due to the storyline, but not the acting.

wishmaster_bs Honestly, first I think HOPE LOST is another cheap flick with some B-Movie Stars (You know: Danny Trejo and Michael Madsen). But the surprise was big, very BIG, when I realize that HOPE LOST is far away from a cheap flick. In fact HOPE LOST is pretty good and delivers more as just sex and violence. From the beginning to the very bloody end tells the movie a good story and delivers some very deep and believable emotions. Main actress Francesca Agostini is great as Sofia, but the real show stealer is Alessia Navarro as a female client of Sofia with a war background – her strong performance is just WOW!!! And the stars? Everyone of the famous faces delivers also a good performance: Mischa Barton is very strong, Michael Madsen is very evil, Daniel Baldwin is very sadistic and Danny Trejo is very frighting. HOPE LOST is truly a great movie – highly recommended and so much better as many other movies out there!!!