Don Cheadle and Guy Pierce are at the top of their acting game
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09/03/08
Traitor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:96
Rotten:62
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Despite another reliable performance from Don Cheadle, Traitor suffers from too many cliches and an unfocused narrative.
Theatrical Release:27-03-2009
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... [More]
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Reviews for Traitor
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
Cheadle's performance alone can't save the feature from falling into ridiculousness, but he is able to pull things back up. When he does so, the result is, for a few moments, as thoughtful as the rest of the film could have been.
08/29/08
A timely story, some welcome complexity, and a compelling performance elevate this story of terrorism above the usual bang-bang.
08/29/08
Traitor plods along while still somehow managing to keep us engrossed no matter how slow the pacing gets ... [but] it asks too much of the viewer's patience for its minimal dramatic payoff.
08/29/08
Promising premise devolves into a by-the-numbers espionage thriller.
08/29/08
This serious, intelligent political thriller about jihadists and America's war on terror represents a dramatic change from writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's only other produced feature screenplay, the cartoonish Day After Tomorrow.
08/29/08
Traitor gets a leg up thanks to a solid cast, including Guy Pearce, an underused Jeff Daniels and chiefly Cheadle's Horn, whose quiet dignity makes his blurred loyalties believable and his true sympathies indefinable.
08/29/08
Traitor is a thriller as fascinating and frustrating as its cagey, conflicted protagonist.
08/29/08
Traitor becomes too busy, ultimately frustrating, and never delivers on its tantalizing promise of offering a little insight into terrorists' motives -- and it's even got an inside man.
08/29/08
Traitor takes aim at too many targets but hits more often than misses.
08/29/08
A smarter movie about terrorisism.
08/29/08
Despite featuring this cast and having some relevant, promising material, this terrorist thriller never engages us. It slow boils its way to a ludicrous, contrived wrapup that's almost laughably silly.
08/29/08
Forced plot twists, head-scratching jumps in logic, and a plan by the hero that would sound great in a seventh grade short story but could never work out in real life.
08/29/08
[The] twist is worth the price of admission ... But ripping headlines out of today's newspaper and turning them into a movie rarely makes for an entertaining outing.
08/29/08
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January 04, 2009:
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January 03, 2009:
This double or maybe even triple agent dude decidedly favors a kind of 'this hurts me more than it hurts you' scorched earth policy, a mentality not exactly conducive to cozy plot resolutions.
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December 30, 2008:
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December 18, 2008:
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