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Movie Reviews of Traffic
Movie Review: Must-see film about the drug world
Summary: 5 Stars
This fascinating, all-star look at the world of illegal drugs loosely weaves several stories together, showing drug dealers, buyers, and those who work to stop the drugs. Michael Douglas plays the new American drug czar who discovers, too late, that his own daughter is an addict. Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro is a Mexican double agent who is caught up in the cruel drug trade in Tijuana. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a society matron who finds out her husband's fortune comes from selling drugs. And Don Cheadle is an undercover DEA agent who is trying to stop the flow of drugs from Mexico to the US. All of the actors are wonderful.
I didn't expect to like this movie, but I did. The script emphasizes character development and I really got caught up in the stories. Each vignette is compelling and memorable, and the script wisely leaves each story unresolved. "Traffic" won four Academy Awards, including Best Director for Steven Soderbergh. This is a serious, thought-provoking film.
Kona
Movie Review: A masterpiece of cinematography.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film can easily be classed as one of the best films in past few years for style, script and stars. The look of the actual film is clearly defined through the use of different colours of scenes (e.g blue for Micheal Douglas's subplot and yellow for the Mexican scenes). This not only helps the film to set out the different stories but it also marks a diffenece to boring cinematography, which has become standard in Hollywood of late.
The script is not only engaging and interesting but also provides a gritty realsim. The scene with the bratty, drug using teenagers about the problems with society reminded me so much of the conversations the "rich kids" at my university used to have.
Finally the stars. They ALL do a fantastic job but most interesting is the performance by Catherine Zeta Jones. This film helped her gain a credability she so richly deserved. I love the fact that her and Micheal Douglas aren't in any scenes together.
This film is a class act.
Movie Review: Simply Brilliant......
Summary: 5 Stars
For a very long time after this movie was released I complained about not wanting to see it because of it sounding dull. Than Oscar time rolls around and Steven Sohdeberg and Benecio Del Torro both take home awards for it. Still I wasn't convinced that I "needed" to see it.Recently the movie came on Showtime and I decided, Hell, might as well watch it. God am I glad that I did. Traffic is easily being put in my Top 10 movies list. The directing, cinemotography, acting, and story had me sucked in for the full 2.5 hours of the movie. It is just amazing. The ending sequences left me staring blankly at my TV set in awe that someone in Hollywood actually figured out how to end a movie with a bang. This is easily a 5 star movie and should be watched by all.
Movie Review: Two consistent mistakes troughout the movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie with starpower and sustance, but it commits the same mistakes with consistency troughout the movie. If you can look beyond them, great, some of us can't.
mistake 1: the only cast member that does not produce the spanish language with a thick american accent was Salma Hayek. Everyone else, From Del Toro to the little characters is a Culprit of mangling the language into an East L.A. version of it.
mistake 2: All scenes in cars in the Mexico side have all the actors "buckled up" when in Mexico the bucke up law just passed in 2008, In fact buckling up is considered for sissies by the macho military/policial culture.
Thoper Grace's performance was a surprise, the kid did break out of his tv personna.
Movie Review: But the pusher doesn't care if you live or if you die!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bold and transcendent movie that literally broke the walls of a delicate, awful and overlooked issue, that day after day corrodes the entrails of the modern societies all over the world.
Tense drama that will shock you from the first shot. The trilogy conformed by this picture, Requiem for a dream, and more recently, Mary full of grace are not a mere product of casualty.
Powerful, merciless, cruel and struggling script that will beat in the family of a devoted ferocious prosecutor who combats this awful lash.
Filmed in sepia tonality to accent still more the dramatis personae. Special mention to Benicio del Toro for this celebrated performance.