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Summary: SOdenbergh stirkes again
Review: Steven Sodenbergh, Cannes award film festival winner for his movie Sex, lies and videoclips, is a new Hollywood golden boy. His nirvana, his salvation. Everybody scremas form top of their lungs about his talent, but they don`t seem to know, that SOdenbergh makes movies on his special way - on European way. Erin Brokovich and Traffic could as well end up turned into some stupid TV drama series, but Stephen "transformed" them into two fantastic movies - one of them "won" nad academy award for Julia Roberts, other one deliverd an Oscar to Sodenbergh. Thanks God, I must say, because Steven was actually making incredible movies that nobody seemed to notice (Kafka, for ex.) Well, finally Hollywood embraced him as his child that will make somethnig new, put resistance against "glamour" production, but nevertheless - make money. Lots of money. Ladies and gentelmen, let me introduce to you Stephen Sodenbergh`s Traffic, a story about war on drugs, that our dear USA has severly lost a long time ago, but just doesn`t want to admit it. Fantastic cast (Douglas, Benicio, Zeta. Chedale....) takes us on a fantastic visual and superb-written ride on double-morals and corruption that doesn`t stop till the end - if there is an End, or is everything just a fight against thin air? Watch, buy, steal this movie - whatever. It is worth it.
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Summary: It's not a thriller..
Review: I rent this film because of the names, the 4 Oscars and the description as a thriller.
It's a fair story but not a thriller!
Furthermore, the part of judge Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas)was not of any importance the way it was presented. To be more interesting, it should have been more developed, I think.
I expected he would be more personal, more involved in the plot than just visiting the general in Mexico. And his daughter was addicted...so? He sent her to the group...so? The wife's part was completely absent and inactive as a mother...We could live without. The film itself is a drama. Not an action film or a thriller as we were presented by the trailers. Sorry, gyus!
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Summary: ...traffic is heavy...but not jammed...
Review: ...most people hate a challenge, meaning a well scripted, intelligent movie that makes you pay attention to the goings-on.
and you're gonna pay attention to this movie...not because the movie requires you to challenge your inner demons, but because so many levels and classes of people are represented here from many various backgrounds that you are bound to see a character that reminds you of someone you know!
...del toro, cheadle and the under-rated guzman give the stronger performances along with christensen; together they offer the viewer characters to care about...but the ensemble cast is so vast, that not enough screen time is alotted to these fine actors...tsk, tsk....the good news is that with so much diversity and talent being offered they all come together like a good gumbo and satisfy most of your entertainment needs.
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Summary: Traffic - story of a hidden reality...
Review: I couldn't rate this DVD any lower because it's a story based on the the hidden truth. A movie based and such research, realy lets you get in touch in the world you realy live in. I base this on my own experience. A hard fact of life for me and all the wictims of this epidemic. When I base these fact on my own life och the life of many more I just have to rate as high as I do. Otherwise I would do this film a great unjustice. But you have to se for your self and I promise you a story never forgotten.
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Summary: A modern epic
Review: Traffic is one of the most engaging movies that I have seen in a long time. Set in present day America and Mexico it addresses some of the current problems society is having with drug cartels. Focusing on five sets of characters whose paths are intertwined together the movie weaves an incredible story of honor, naivety, courage, deceit and tragedy. I was incredibly surprised and happy to find that USA pictures is responsible for such a fine piece of cinematic material.
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Summary: Good teacher
Review: Traffic could be a documentary. Instead, Steven Sodenhberg shows us three seperate cases in which drugs are involved. The first one is about a senator (well played by Michael Douglas) and his daughter. She gets addicted to drugs after "experimenting" with friends. And later her case becomes more dramatic, when she becomes a prostitute and she's addicted to heroine. The second one is about two Mexican policemen. One of them (the excellent Benicio Del Toro) is involved in corruption, while he's supposed to stop the drug traffic in Tijuana, he works for a general that is in fact associated with drug traffic. And the last one, and the least interesting, it's about a woman (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who comes back from work one day, and sees the police in front of her house and her husband being arrested for drug possession. She has to live with her child that saw his father being arrested for a near reason. Their lawyer, played by Dennis Quaid, who is not very amazing in his role by the way, tries to replace the missing husband of that woman...but some drug stories make links between the three different stories. What was interesting was the fact that some characters from different stories could cross the same street at the same time, and never know anything about each other, like any normal pedestrian. That makes it more realistic. The most powerful story is the daughter's, and it's also the most disgusting. The most fascinating and entertaining one is the one in Mexico, and the last one is not bad, but could be better. Traffic shows the impact that drugs can have on people, and maybe it dramatizes it to the extreme, that's true, but there are really cases like these in the world. What is easy to understand is that drug traffic isn't the first cause of drug problems...it's the people who use drugs and get hooked on them. It's a moral message, and many movies that try to pass that king of message stink, but not this one. The acting is good, overall, especially form Benicio Del Toro...the directing reminds me of music videos, for the colors, the mood, the cutting actions, the always moving camera...actually, that could seem like amateurish directing, but in the case of Traffic, it just helps the film and the rythm. Very good film.
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Summary: Traffic is a compelling masterpiece
Review: Traffic is a breathtaking film that rises the question of drug awareness throughout the United States. In the film, it brings to the attention of so many people how bad the drug trafficking problem in America really is. Traffic follows the lives of many different people, and how drug problems have effected each of them and their family. The film was based on the 1989 British miniseries Trafficking, which sparked the attention of screenwriter Steven Gaghen to write this wonderful adapted screenplay, and Steven Souderburg to direct such a brilliant and compelling film. Traffic is pulled together by a group of terrific actors, earning itself many Academy Award nominations, and the Screen Actor's Guild award for Best Picture. Traffic is an excellent film that shows drug problems can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
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Summary: Fair...
Review: There are a few interesting characteristics to this movie. The camera work -- particularly in the Mexico scenes -- is interesting. The weaving of real people in government into the movie adds some flavor. However, the overall experience is less than spectacular. Michael Douglas is neither good nor bad, he is simply Michael Douglas. The shining star in this movie is Benecio Del Toro as the gritty south of the border cop. Start with a rental before you jump to a buy.
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Summary: Traffic: the best movie I didn't enjoy
Review: I went to see "Traffic" in the theatres after seeing the previews and all the praise that it got. I certainly understand why it was so heavily praised. What the movie lacked in enjoyability, it made up for in powerful storytelling, and some of the best directing I've ever seen in a movie. The direction was so good, that I, a 17 year old, for the first time realized what a great directing job really is. The gritty realism that "Traffic" displays is the same thing that made me not really enjoy the watching of the movie. It was superb, but when I left I felt depressed, and really felt down for the rest of the day. It's possibly the best movie of 2000, but it's certainly not the feel good film of 2000, and really, don't we go to the movies to see good guys win and bad guys die so we can feel good? "Traffic" does the exact opposite, showing that in the end, and I hate to spoil it for those that haven't seen it, that the "War on drugs" really can't be won, and we'll probably always it's influence in our society. It's a truely powerful movie, and a movie I think everyone should watch at least once, but it's not one I would like to see again.
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Summary: A brilliant pic
Review: An amazing pictures, deserving of every award it did and din't get.
I won't bore you with details of why the movie is so amazing, becuase so many other people already have, but I will say that it was a better flick than Erin Brockovich. Not the Erin was a bad movie, it's juts that Soderbergh(sp?) really shone here as a director.
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