All you'll learn about the War on Terror from this movie is that one exists.
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08/26/08
Traitor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:157
Fresh:95
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
Less radical than it appears, dressing up a fairly old-fashioned scenario in contemporary trappings. But simply as a political thriller, it delivers the goods pretty efficiently.
08/26/08
Cheadle is outstanding. That's no surprise; he's a fantastic actor. Here he's given a lot of room in which to navigate.
08/26/08
When a director can't fulfill his obligations to his genre, he doesn't win the confidence he needs to lead an audience into higher terrain.
08/26/08
Perhaps because Traitor aims to be equal parts explosive action picture and serious-minded character drama, it never completely hits the mark in either regard.
08/26/08
Top CriticThe plot holes escalate as quickly as the action.
08/26/08
A thriller with many insights into terrorism and the agencies committed to stem the tide of violence.
08/26/08
TRAITOR isn't a bad movie, and has some exciting moments. But it's by-the-numbers screenplay and direction leaves alot to be desired.
08/25/08
The filmmakers, I think, got in over their heads and couldn’t decide whether they were making an action thriller or a drama of conscience; they wound up flubbing both.
08/25/08
Top CriticAn intellectual and philosophical lost cause.
08/25/08
Well made and acted but lacking edge-of-your-seat suspense.
08/25/08
Pearce has a few moments where a personality shines through, but he's overwhelmed by the fast, noisy pressures of a film shot in 17 cities and on three continents.
08/22/08
Making Traitor something more than a disposable B-movie was possible, but at this point in the release calendar, way more effort than it was worth.
08/21/08
"Traitor" is an intense and highly politicized film that dares to look at more than a few sides of an ideological battle that rages throughout the world.
08/21/08
The first things to go in Cheadle's portrayal of such a knotted, inward man are spontaneity and a sense of humor.
08/19/08
Top CriticA thriller about the moral complexities of the war on terror, Traitor is really a movie at war with itself.
08/18/08
The novel angle of a hero who's Muslim-American, honestly played by Don Cheadle, and an intriguing moral dilemma almost compensate for the flaws of the thriller, which is exactly the opposite of Syriana with its conventional tale and compromised ending.
08/18/08
With a sprawling production that spans many international locations, Traitor is efficient and convincing.
08/18/08
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December 30, 2008:
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December 18, 2008:
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