Traffic
The narcotics war in America will not end yet, as we present here a series of issues that illustrate the world of drugs and crime in America and how to fight them. The Ohio Supreme Court judge is appointed by the president as the country's chief drug judge, and the disaster occurs when the man later discovers that his daughter is addicted to heroin. And another case involving a Mexican policeman standing alone in his struggle against a group of powerful gangs in his corrupt society.
30 September 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
22 February 1944, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
24 February 1961, San Antonio, Texas, USA
10 May 1950, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
20 December 1969, Gardena, California, USA
25 September 1953, New Britain, Connecticut, USA
18 July 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 August 1965, Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
13 August 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 07, 2001
It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied.
April 25, 2003
Director Steven Soderbergh is riding one of the hottest streaks in the movie world.
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.
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.
December 29, 2010
Tons of drug use, violence, and depressing stories.
