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03/27/09
Traitor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:96
Rotten:62
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Despite another reliable performance from Don Cheadle, Traitor suffers from too many cliches and an unfocused narrative.
Theatrical Release:Aug 29, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $23,501,463
Synopsis: TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted... [More]
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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Reviews for Traitor
Before it reverts to standard thriller tropes, this tale of an Islamic double agent takes a more thoughtful attitude to East-West relations than one might expect.
03/27/09
It isn’t often that you see a thriller about international terrorism as even-handed as Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s Traitor.
03/27/09
Despite some strong performances and the occasional good moment, Traitor never quite gets the tone right and is ultimately undone by an unintentionally laughable climax.
03/27/09
An intelligent, action-packed thriller, made on a modest budget with no mega stars? Phew! Didn't see that coming.
03/27/09
Traitor is a grown-up film that doesn't insult the intelligence.
03/27/09
The theme of treachery is well unpicked as our view of the moral limits of "necessary evils" gets stretched. Only Horn's unlikely visit to a girlfriend and an obscure ending mar a taut, engaged thriller.
03/26/09
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02/27/09
This double or maybe even triple agent dude decidedly favors a kind of 'this hurts me more than it hurts you' scorched earth policy, a mentality not exactly conducive to cozy plot resolutions.
12/29/08
Cheadle's struggle to express the convictions of a man who assimilates evil in order to destroy it is sometimes mesmerizing; sometimes schizophrenic.
11/29/08
Overall more thoughtful than jingoistic, even if it does little to advance audience understanding of the War on Terror and its multi-tentacled morality plays.
11/26/08
Competence is fine, but imagination is what's really demanded from such material, and Nachmanoff's remarkably dull-headed way with dialogue is certainly no help.
11/21/08
A relentless suspense thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that will have you on the edge of your seat.
11/20/08
As an attempt to delve into the murky reaches of fundamentalism and fanaticism it displays its ambitions.
11/14/08
Like The Fugitive, Traitor is a thriller where both the pursuer and the pursued are well-developed, compelling and sympathetic figures.
11/12/08
For most of its length, Traitor is a serious and suspense-filled film ... But as the movie approaches its climax, the plot goes crazy -- and [not] in a good way.
11/12/08
A good political action movie that makes you use your brain a little bit.
11/07/08
It was complicated but ultimately it failed in that attempt to deliver a complicated message.
11/07/08
Let's just say this is a well paced thriller with a strong cast -- it's good to see Guy Pearce on screen -- but the terrorist threat which obsessed the recent Bush administration has been dwarfed by a couple of things...
11/07/08
Cheadle and Pearce are equally good in their roles, and their characters are given real feeling through Nachmanoff's pungent script, which provides the viewer with significant background and depth on the two leads.
11/07/08
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January 04, 2009:
This double or maybe even triple agent dude decidedly favors a kind of 'this hurts me more than it hurts you' scorched earth policy, a mentality not exactly conducive to cozy plot resolutions. 
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January 03, 2009:
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December 30, 2008:
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December 18, 2008:
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