Traffic (2000)
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.
- Steven Soderbergh
- Basti Van Der Woude
- Trey Batchelor
- Gregory Jacobs
- Annie Welles
- Stephen Gaghan
- Simon Moore
Rating: 7.1/10 by 2147 users
Alternative Title:
贩毒网 - CN
天地大反扑 - CN
毒品交易 - CN
Traffic - Macht des Kartells - DE
Traffic: Ninguém Sai Limpo - BR
Tráfico - MX
Traffic - ES
毒網 - HK
毒網(2020) - HK
Country:
United States of America
Language:
Español
English
Runtime: 02 hour 27 minutes
Budget: $48,000,000
Revenue: $207,500,000
Plot Keyword: drug dealer, daughter, mother, drug abuse, drug smuggling, smuggling (contraband), war on drugs, drug trafficking, addicted, police operation, father, usa–mexico border, addiction, drug lord, marriage dispute
Seen this a few times over the years and still remains a compelling multi-character drama with some fine performances all around. Also has some great visuals depending on the storyline. Not sure where I rank it amongst Soderbergh's other works (Ocean's 11 has the fun factory going for it) but still love it no matter how many times I've seen it. **4.5/5**
**Someone needs to go back to directing school** This gem of the millennium comes with a great story (which has been done countless times before and after), great actors (funny faced most of them), and very well done action. Unfortunately all is wasted on the terrible actual telling of that story and its people in action. We get weird colors, useless zoom ins, shots into nothing, a boring soundtrack, the whole thing stripped off any continuity and stretched to 2 hours 30 minutes. It is understandable the makers of this film wanted to underline the realism with a documentary style, but come on. Or maybe they just were on some of the drugs shown in the picture, or maybe, and that must be it, they wanted the audience to feel like they were on drugs. 9 June 2017 I am migrating my reviews from a different site which has become simply garbage. TMDB looks awesome and I look forward to be a part of it.
