Traitor is filled with more surprises and originality than last year's much ballyhooed Michael Clayton and Don Cheadle deserves much of the credit.
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09/27/08
Traitor (2008)
53 %
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Reviews Counted: 112
Fresh: 59
Rotten:53
Average Rating: 6/10
Consensus: Despite another reliable performance from Don Cheadle, Traitor suffers from too many cliches and an unfocused narrative.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who... [More]
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Reviews for Traitor
Sure, it's as predictable as a Vegas magic show, but it can be a fun ride.
09/19/08
If you can overlook the stereotypes (which I fear many Americans won't even notice as such), Traitor provides an entertaining evening at the movies.
09/19/08
Don Cheadle, heart sewn to his sleeve, is badly miscast in this war-on-terror thriller.
09/15/08
While the film appears at first to be complicating the definition of "traitor," it's not long before the potential meanings are reductive and literal.
09/12/08
Appallingly cynical...desires to appeal to the biggest possible audience while offending nobody. Which means, inevitably, that it has something to offend everybody.
09/10/08
TRAITOR starts with the complexity and credibility of a John LeCarre spy story and transforms itself into an action thriller of the Frederick Forsyth mold.
09/10/08
There's a line in the movie where someone says, I just want the truth. The truth? Traitor is so complicated I have no idea what it's trying to say.
09/06/08
The mix of high-minded politics and slowly ratcheting tension pays off, as "Traitor" uses brainpower to generate its thrills.
09/05/08
A film that aims to examine Islam in order to separate the true believers from those who have hijacked it for terrorism. (Sound boring? It's also a taut thriller.)
09/05/08
Apart from the performers, and some atmospheric photography by J. Michael Muro, the movie is a conflicted muddle.
09/05/08
Even viewers burned out on talk about politics and war will be queasily engrossed by conversations inside Samir's cell.
09/04/08
Martin sacrifices tough satire for apolitical piety. Traitor could have been called Patriot, but the latter notion is unfashionable.
09/03/08
I wonder how many hours it took after watching 'The Departed' for director/screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff to complete his script for 'Traitor.'
09/03/08
I'm not sure I've ever seen a film go straight to hell so quickly and so badly as this.
09/02/08
Talented actor Don Cheadle brings yet another angst-driven character to life in 'Traitor,' a looka t the question of whether the means ever justifies the end in killing.
08/31/08
Tense, unpredictable and intriguing, terrorism weaves a tangled web of conspiracy.
08/30/08
...a surprising, mature action thriller that is thought provoking, action-packed (in an intelligent way)
08/29/08
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