Traffic (2000)
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Reviews Counted:146
Fresh:134
Rotten:12
Average Rating:8/10
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
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Traffic
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Intelligent and highly thought-provoking. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Brilliantly-made, impeccably acted, already tipped for Oscars -- this is easily one of the best films you’ll see this year. Full Review |
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5/5 |
It should be mandatory viewing for absolutely everyone ... especially those involved in the war on drugs. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A sprawling, artistic, superbly acted, informative, and mainstream Hollywood movie. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Soderbergh's electrifying pace always keeps this huge project firmly on the rails, always moving, always running. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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9/10 |
Le film de Steven Soderbergh et Stephen Gaghan est visiblement le fruit d'un travail de recherche exhaustif et d'une démarche narrative tout aussi réfléchie et cohérente. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Traffic is one of those square-up-the-middle tracts that make people think they're thinking. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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The promise of Sex, Lies, and Videotape has been fulfilled. Full Review |
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Overrated... but worth seeing. Full Review |
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B |
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. Full Review |
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A |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
One of the best movies of the year: a gripping, intelligent and ambitious drama about drug trafficking and the misguided war against it. Full Review |
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