Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
It's every bit as thrilling and engrossing as the best spy thriller or cop flick.
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United States, Germany · 2000
Rated R · 2h 27m
Director Steven Soderbergh
Starring Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle
Genre Thriller, Drama, Crime
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An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
It's every bit as thrilling and engrossing as the best spy thriller or cop flick.
You could get high on this movie's technique, dizzy on its storytelling. Yet it's one of the most lucid bad trips ever made.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The picture's thoughtfulness and ambition make it unusually suspenseful, gripping, and disturbing.
His (Soderbergh's) work has taken on echoes of a classier, bygone age of cinema, at once more literate and lighthearted.
Traffic is not just an ultra-procedural--it's the Big Picture, the Whole Enchilada, complete with a complicated war between two Mexican drug cartels.
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
He's (Soderbergh) among the few directors working today who makes me wonder what he'll do next - and draws me into the movie house, whatever it may be.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Though meticulously researched, well acted and filled with striking moments, the movie ultimately feels oddly disconnected.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
Where Traffic stumbles is in its inability to engage the heart with the same fervor it engages the intellect.
Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky
It is a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, a beautiful and brutal work.
Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level.
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