Traffic is an important social realistic film. How do I know this? Because this movie is more boring than church. You can stuff it full of as many fancy filmic techniques as you like, but you're never going to get a good film out of it.
And stuff it with fancy filmic techniques they do. Traffic looks fantastic. The colour filtering makes it visually striking. And the editing the editing is excellent. I didn't realise editing could be this good; I just thought that editing was editing. But that's the thing I don't go to the cinema to be stunned by the editing. The last thing I want to be focusing on in a movie is the quality of the editing, but it's just so much more interesting than the plot and the dialog.
And in retrospect I wonder how I can have found the plot as dull as I did it's a movie about drugs, with lots of guns and raids. It is, in fact, quite an achievement to make this movie as dull as it is. And it's not the achievement of the actors. Everyone puts in good performances, extremely good in some cases.
You can understand the critics being full of praise for the film, because cinematically it is wonderful. But whilst falling over themselves to congratulate Mr Soderbergh and worshipping him as their one true god, what the critics have all failed to notice is that as a piece of entertainment, TRAFFIC SUCKS.
4/10
And stuff it with fancy filmic techniques they do. Traffic looks fantastic. The colour filtering makes it visually striking. And the editing the editing is excellent. I didn't realise editing could be this good; I just thought that editing was editing. But that's the thing I don't go to the cinema to be stunned by the editing. The last thing I want to be focusing on in a movie is the quality of the editing, but it's just so much more interesting than the plot and the dialog.
And in retrospect I wonder how I can have found the plot as dull as I did it's a movie about drugs, with lots of guns and raids. It is, in fact, quite an achievement to make this movie as dull as it is. And it's not the achievement of the actors. Everyone puts in good performances, extremely good in some cases.
You can understand the critics being full of praise for the film, because cinematically it is wonderful. But whilst falling over themselves to congratulate Mr Soderbergh and worshipping him as their one true god, what the critics have all failed to notice is that as a piece of entertainment, TRAFFIC SUCKS.
4/10