Rotten
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Traffic
No one gets away clean
2000 · 2h 27m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Steven Soderbergh Director
- Michael Douglas as Robert Wakefield
- Benicio del Toro as Javier Rodriguez
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Helena Ayala
- Erika Christensen as Caroline Wakefield
- Don Cheadle as Montel Gordon
- Jacob Vargas as Manolo Sanchez
- Michael O'Neill as Lawery Rodman
- Miguel Ferrer as Eduardo Ruiz
- Luis Guzmán as Ray Castro
- Topher Grace as Seth Abrahms
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The promise of Sex, Lies, and Videotape has been fulfilled.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
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.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Director Steven Soderbergh is riding one of the hottest streaks in the movie world.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Soderbergh's jazzed stylistics can be smartly entertaining. Without them, an uneven movie like Traffic might seem more of a melange than it already is.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
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