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Summary: Amazing
Review: Absolutly amazing movie. Great list of stars and an equally amazing script. Would strongly recommend to anyone.
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Summary: Entertains without resorting to standard tactics.
Review: Watching the drug trafficing world from the eyes of Traffic is sitting and observing, but not interfering. Traffic tells a story, at times exciting, at times thoughtful, but never typical. Some might find traffic slow, others will find it overrated. However If you go expecting an ineresting documentery, type movie you will never be bored. Traffic is actually about it's characters. Many major players, who all have seperate lives and separate stories. Some of them never meet, some of them will connect for but seconds, yet they are all linked. On human terms, it shows many people going through their drug related crisis and progressing through their lives. Not everyone has a drug related problem, but that doesn't mean they are not affected by it. The most impressive thing about this movie, is that it doesn't try to push it's concepts on to you. If you gulp, you won't enjoy it. If you sip slowly and savour it, it may the best movie you have tasted. It tells a story of drug trafficing from both sides of the border, both sides of the law, and both sides of the aarguement. At the end of the movie, nothing changes, except the maturity of it's characters.
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Summary: Deplorable Sour Grapes
Review: I have read many of the public reviews in this area and in the Gladiator forum as well. I would not go as far to say that traffic is the worst film of all time--no there are many more films more deserving--but Traffic should not have been given the award for "Best Picture"--should not have even been a contender. To anyone who would knock down another film to promote their favorite after losing to another film is deplorable and all I can say to you is "sour grapes". I would venture that many of the "Wonderful" & "Brilliant" remarks have come from critiques that have been subdued by the bloated subject matter that this movie is entirely base on. I would award them for their concern and public awareness but subject matter alone will not define a "Brilliant" or even a "Good" film, which Traffic is not. Traffic is an excellent example of a classic problem in Hollywood fare. Elitists in Hollywood love lecturing the public on social woes as if they are being told for the very first time--which is almost always a mistake. If Hollywood wants to expose then they should write editorials not speak through their half-written and over hyped actors.
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Summary: Nobody Comes Out Clean
Review: This is a powerful, epic, well-told story, that should have won Best Picture. Even though it didn't it still is one of the best movies ever made. First of all the acting is superb, and it leaves you at a dramatic conclusion. Three words: SEE THIS MOVIE!
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Summary: One of the Greatest
Review: Traffic is the best film of 2000 and is one of the best ever made. Soderbergh is a genius director, jumping seemlessly to the disparate storylines. Cinematography was awesome as were the fitlers and stocks used for the various scenes. Douglas was snubbed an Oscar.
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Summary: A young critic
Review: I saw this movie with my dad. When it was over, at first I was almost a little disappointed considering the movie was up for an oscar. It took about a day for me to realize what a great film it really was. The way the movie is presented, the powerful issues that are brought up in different point of veiws, the stunning job of all the cast, and the reality of the stories are only some of the things that the movie sparks in your mind. For days I kept thinking about the film and its powerful messages. I would recommend this movie to any mature viewer.
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Summary: amazing
Review: This film is absolutely amazing... the cinematography, the script, just about everything. Its refreshing to see such a beautiful movie from Hollywood. An absolute must see!
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Summary: Complex and fascinating
Review: An amazing masterpiece. Three entirely different stories of people struggling with themselves emotionally while entangled in the neverending drug war saga are so intricately woven together in a captivating script and powerful performances by the cast and amazing direction by Steven Soderbergh. Few films catch so eloquently and simplicitly the troubling fight against illegal drugs. This film displays the lives of those for and against drugs, and in doing so, shows how greed and selfishness lead to such devastation in the lives of all who are involved. An amazing, enthralling, mesmerizing film that truly opens your eyes to a disturbing side of the world that few rarely get to glimpse.
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Summary: Wonderful performances, great directing , etc
Review: I still don't believe this film didn't win the Best Picture Oscar. Soderburgh and Benicio Del Toro definitely deserved their Oscars. It's wonderfully filmed, performances by everyone stellar, especially Michael Douglas' daughter.
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Summary: Moving "Traffic"
Review: 2000 was a good year for director Steven Soderbergh. First was the entertaining "Erin Brockovich", then the tense, complicated, well-acted "Traffic", which was probably the best movie of last year and which won Soderbergh the Oscar for Best Director. The plot is constructed of five interlinking sets of people: a newly appointed American drug czar and his family, the Mexican drug cartel, two Tiajuana plainclothes men, a couple of U.S. wiretap specialists, and a wealthy San Diego family whose fortune is a little less than legitimate. Michael Douglas is the star, playing the drug czar who discovers that his teenage daughter (Erika Christensen) has been inhaling free base and is hooked. Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman are nicely paired as the eavesdroppers, and Steven Bauer and Catherine Zeta-Jones play the San Diego couple whose lives collapse when an informer names the husband as a leading importer=exporter of illegal drugs. Dennis Quaid,who gets over-the-title billing, is convincing in a small, unsympathetic role as their opportunistic lawyer. Ms Zeta-Jones' character is the most controversial, morphing from suburban mom to Lady Macbeth right before our eyes. But, of course, most of the attention has been focused on Benicio Del Toro as Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez, the Mexican cop whose loyalties are constantly being challenged. He deservedly won the Oscar, though in the wrong category. Because his character both opens and ends the story, and because he has (I think) more screen time than Douglas, he should have been nominated for Best Actor. Some of the movie's plot elements, particularly in the second half, don't work. The informer is obviously poisoned by a breakfast that is brought to him while his police escort is in the room. Why would they allow a stranger to serve food to a heavily-protected state witness? (The informer is played by Miguel Ferrer, the son of Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney.) Also, I didn't believe the drug czar's aborted acceptance speech for a minute, and his daughter's return from the dead was too pat and painless. But the quiet conclusion, with Javier watching a baseball game, was effective, proving that Stephen Gaghan's screenplay (another Oscar) didn't need a bang-up ending to complete a forceful story.
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