So... If I was rating this normally, I'd rate it higher. I walked into this one blind. "Found footage" movies can be an interesting journey. I was with it for a good long while. Most of the movie. It'd never be one of my favorites, but it's not a bad watch until... Other things happen... If you're reading reviews of this, you have some idea.
Moving on to what I feel I need to say, the movie Amber Alert is the kind of movie that can state, with a straight face, a sort of public safety statement. And including some horror, gore, and horrific elements is always fun... Until it's not.
So, the one thing that makes me feel better is that the actresses were NOT minors, but... We've got to differentiate something here. There are some seriously disturbing scenes in movies that are a valid and necessary as a part of the movie. The rape scene in this was something different than that. It's not that it's badly done or something. It's the fact that she is supposed to be like 13 or 14, and the scene is graphic in a way that will probably never fully leave most people. And when I say it's something different, it feels really sinister. You wouldn't normally make a scene quite like that, and not just because of the controversy... It kept going past the point it needed to. So yeah, it's something different from anything tasteful, largely because of the age thing. Like, more than just worries of keeping children safe as a society, we can't ignore that there are actual markets for movies such as that scene. For real minors getting hurt. I feel like this movie is kind of promoting and helping that market along, even if unintentionally. So THAT is my problem with it.