The message of the movie was really unclear, it felt like the filmmakers didn't stop and ask themselves "what do we want the viewers to feel in this scene or this other scene", so the narrative that was created in this 102 minutes lead to nothing.

I didn't care about the characters or the events because I was given no reason to, there was little given as background to the story (which is fine, great storytellers don't need voiceovers or walls of text telling you what are you watching) or the characters and their motivations, so I was really indifferent to these characters and what happened to them.

I didn't know if the movie wanted to say something about child soldiers, or wanted to be a story of survival of a hostage, or an exploration of empathy in an intense situation, or maybe it wanted to be all these things at once that it failed to be any of these things in a fulfilling manner.

Then the movie ended as it was just getting good. I was really surprised as the screen went black and the credits rolled in, I felt like there was still a third act in that story that would've at least taken this movie to a 7/10 at least, just by virtue of taking the story home and giving the viewers closure.

Eh, another one for the "Only if..." pile.