Traffic
It is a realistic view of the drug world in America. In a strange story about the appointment of a Supreme Court judge in Ohio by the president as the judge on drug issues in the country. The man later discovers that his daughter is addicted to heroin. There are also two Drug Enforcement Agency agents seeking to reach the wife of a narcotics man named Baron, who is seeking to control his business.
2 December 1939, Searchlight, Nevada, USA
16 December 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
1 October 1974, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
2 September 1966, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
7 February 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
May 3, 1946 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
7 May 1975, Florence, South Carolina, USA
20 December 1969, Gardena, California, USA
19 August 1982, Seattle, Washington, USA
4 March 1970, Los Angeles County, California, USA
18 August 1982, Dunedin, Florida, USA
14 September 1964, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11 November 1969, El Paso, Texas, USA
25 September 1953, New Britain, Connecticut, USA
December 29, 2010
Tons of drug use, violence, and depressing stories.
November 04, 2010
"Traffic" leaps into growing gorges between profit and principle and, from a law perspective, questions the sanity of ramming heads into walls of cocaine bricks. It remains one of the Zeroes' preeminent epics even after policy cinema's shift to terrorism.
July 09, 2012
A little masterpiece, at best, but for any other filmmaker, this would be a career highlight, while it's also easy to see how most other filmmakers would turn it into a dull, obvious harangue.
April 25, 2003
Director Steven Soderbergh is riding one of the hottest streaks in the movie world.
July 30, 2012
It is such a complex film yet artfully done in such a way that you cannot help but sit back and admire it.
September 26, 2002
Soderbergh's jazzed stylistics can be smartly entertaining. Without them, an uneven movie like Traffic might seem more of a mélange than it already is.
April 27, 2007
The promise of Sex, Lies, and Videotape has been fulfilled.
January 29, 2012
A fascinating look at how we're winning and losing the "war" on drugs.
June 24, 2006
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.
February 07, 2001
It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied.
May 18, 2008
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.
