Traffic

Pros: cinematography, great acting performances, gritty storytelling
Cons: some plot points not as believable as others

There's trouble on the streets tonight, I can feel it in my bones. I had a premonition, That he should not go alone. I knew the gun was loaded, But I didn't think he'd kill. Everything exploded, And the blood began to spill. My first ...

Pros: It is an extraordinary accomplishment in filmmaking, a stunning and brutal reality check.
Cons: Not for kids due to profanity, teen sex and brief nudity.

The eye opening movie “Traffic” is available on DVD and Video Tape at most video stores. This movie was directed and written by Steven Soderbergh based on the book Traffic by Simon Moore. The movie intermingles three drug related stories in real time...

Pros: Epic Filmmaking
Cons: N/A

Traffic is the unfolding drama that underscores the seedy industry of drug trafficking. Through a series of interwoven stories we are exposed a caustic glimpse of the never-ending war on drugs. From the hot, sun scorched fields in Mexico, to the...

Pros: excellent performances, especially by Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle
Cons: on reflection, the plots are very familiar, as are the racial stereotypes

Steven Soderbergh keeps a lot of balls in the air. If skill in juggling were the only criterion, “Traffic” would qualify as a great film. Each of the main storylines on its own is fairly conventional: (1) the sanctimonious judge whose own household is...

Pros: Benjamin Bratt, strong connections between characters, reality check
Cons: very weak plot…but understandable, not suitable for children

Yippee...review number 200!! Aren't you so excited to be reading another review on this movie?

I don't even know where to start with this movie. I just didn't like it at all and was quite surprised at this because it came so highly...

Pros: Talented ensemble, smart script
Cons: The war on drugs never ends

The cycle of the war on drugs is a never-ending one. Money, or the lack of it, is at the root of the problem, for as long as someone is willing to pay for illegal drugs, someone will be there to supply them. That's just one of the sobering lessons...

Pros: An incredible ride through the world of drug dealing and the war against it
Cons: A little simplistic on what the true answer may be

This is a movie which should be required viewing for teenagers and politicians. It should
be required for teens because it might make a few of them stop and think before injecting
all kinds of drugs into their bodies. Politicians might learn...

Pros: Absolutely outstanding direction, screenplay, fantastic performances, especially Del Toro, Zeta-Jones, Douglas
Cons: Really depressing, a tad long, weird Wizard of Oz lighting effects

Steven Soderbergh's other, slightly better film of 2000 is a riveting masterpiece, a sprawling epic, a tragic reflection of today's society, and more. It boasts some of the best acting last year had to offer and one of the tightest, most realistic...

Pros: Great cast, great story, well directed, awesome movie
Cons: None!

Y2K dumped more than enough junkie movies onto the market. Many of us in the movie enthusiasts community were seriously beginning to lose home in any of the studio's ability to produce good films. It seems that any movie with enough money attached to...

Pros: Benicio Del Toro might just be this generation's Brando.
Cons: The film raises lots of questions, but offers few answers.

While I was watching Traffic, the current big-ambitioned film at your local cineplex, I kept thinking, “What would Nancy Reagan say?”

“Just say ‘Oh no!’” most likely. Traffic delivers a grim State of the (Dis)Union...

Pros: Excellent acting.
Cons: Lousy, boring long overly drawn-out movie. Everything that's needed for an Academy Award!

As a rule, I suppose I don’t like the same movies that the Oscars, SAG or Academy Awards like. In fact, the only movie in recent memory that I liked that was even nominated for Best Picture was Shakespeare In Love. I felt as if that movie...

Pros: Direction, great performances, relevant story.
Cons: Very long at parts.

The Movie That Won Soderbergh Best Director
This is the best movie that Steven Soderbergh has made to date, not my favorite, but the best. My favorite is of course Out Of Sight (probably known to you as the Clooney, Jennifer...

Pros: Expertly crafted, Great acing all around, Visually superb
Cons: Sometimes flaccid emotions, Typical stories

Traffic, Steven Soderbergh’s blistering portrait of illegal substance trade between the US and Mexico and the lives tangled in between, isn’t a drug movie in the traditional sense. In many ways, it’s a movie more about the politics of them, and...

Pros: Standout performances by Del Toro, Christensen and Zeta-Jones make this a great film with characters that film goers can actually care about. Soderbergh has out done himself with this epic work.
Cons: No real resolution may leave some viewers unfulfilled. An exchange between Bauer and Quaid near the end of the film seems out of place.

Rare is the film that will have me screaming Academy Award as I leave the theater. "Traffic" is such a film.

From the vision of Steven Soderbergh ("Erin Brockovich" "Out of Sight" "The Limey") comes...

Pros: Brilliant acting and directing.
Cons: Story threatens to become a jumbled mess.

Traffic is an epic free-flowing film so complex and multi-faceted that it could easily crumble under the weight of its own jumbled plotlines.

Following the path from drug cartel to street dealer to casual user (and all points in...