Intelligent and highly thought-provoking.
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05/18/08
Traffic (2000)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 144 Fresh: 132 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus:
Soderbergh successfully pulls off the highly ambitious Traffic, a movie with three different stories and a very large cast. The issues of ethics are gray rather than black-and-white, with no clear-cut good guys. Terrific acting all around.
Runtime: 2 hrs 28 mins
Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem, based on a 1989 British TV mini-series. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzmán
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: Stephen Gaghan
Producer: Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Composer: Cliff Martinez
Screenwriter: Stephen Gaghan
Producer: Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Composer: Cliff Martinez
Reviews
Top Critic
It's wise about different kinds of addiction and concepts of family, about the folly, futility and hypocrisy of anti-drug 'wars', and about the awful human cost of it all. And it grips like a vice from start to end.
06/24/06
Top Critic
Brilliantly-made, impeccably acted, already tipped for Oscars -- this is easily one of the best films you’ll see this year.
10/30/02
It should be mandatory viewing for absolutely everyone ... especially those involved in the war on drugs.
12/10/01
A sprawling, artistic, superbly acted, informative, and mainstream Hollywood movie.
04/16/01
Top Critic
Although its vigorous, unjaded rush of imagery and story makes for an exciting visual experience, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic is in the end a fatally sober film about drugs.
04/13/01
In considering so many angles regarding his subject, Soderbergh and his writers have created a bold act of filmmaking -- passionate drama on a grand canvas.
02/26/01
Soderbergh's electrifying pace always keeps this huge project firmly on the rails, always moving, always running.
02/07/01
Top Critic
I don't see this slightly better-than-average drug thriller, with slightly better-than-average direction by Steven Soderbergh, as anything more than a routine rubber-stamping of genre reflexes.
05/18/08
Traffic is one of those square-up-the-middle tracts that make people think they're thinking.
08/05/07
Mr. Soderburgh never insults or spoon-feeds his audience. His camera only documents and observes what's out there. And with a subject like this, that can be the most effective technique.
07/14/07
By Hollywood standards, this is a decently written, well-made social problem picture, but it's not nearly as harsh, critical and effective as Traffik, the 5-hour British mini-series upon which Gaghan's script is based.
06/24/07
You may agree with its message, and be impressed by the camerawork. But this movie is stretched too thin and eventually asks us to accept some pretty ludicrous twists.
12/06/04
It feels like watching pieces move on a chessboard without human agency, without psychological desire.
10/03/03
This close dissection of the arguably inneffectual drug war being fought by the US government is so complex, so intricate, that I am surprised that the film has met with commercial success.
05/22/03
One of the best movies of the year: a gripping, intelligent and ambitious drama about drug trafficking and the misguided war against it.
05/20/03
Director Steven Soderbergh is riding one of the hottest streaks in the movie world.
04/25/03
Soderbergh's visual treatment of this story is compelling; the film's globe- (or at least America-) trotting style conveys the scale and scope of the subject matter.
02/08/03
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