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Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: A group of best friends in downbeat, industrial Cardiff, Wales, sheds their dead-end jobs on Fridays for raves, clubs and a party scene where ecstasy and techno tunes abound.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 24
  2. Negative: 3 out of 24
  1. Funny and masterfully inventive.
  2. What it lacks in story, it makes up for with sharp dialogue and an amusing Walter Mitty-esque style.
  3. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Brimming with fun and a few great ideas, it's little more than a foggy memory the minute it's over.
  4. Someone has seen "Trainspotting" too many times, and it's writer/director Justin Kerrigan.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. JaydeeL.
    10
    I love this movie cant get enough of it. Its actually my favourite movie. Nice one brotha!
  2. Mattb
    10
    Is there some way to measure the voices of the critic against sales over time to see whether they got it right or not? To say that human traffic dialogue is not memorable for isntance when it is quoted in every nightclub every night all around the world X number of years after release surely indicates critic error? Expand
  3. TomN.
    9
    This must be one of the most underrated films I've seen on Metacritic. The reviewers must have been judging it against Trainspotting alone. Firstly, Trainspotting is about junkies and the mess that H and drugs will get you in, whereas Human Traffic is about the average weekend of a British pill popping punter. Secondly, Trainspotting is depressing where Human Traffic is uplifting (one of the best films to watch on a comedown). So check it out and forget the preconceptions! Expand
  4. RoryP.
    2
    Could everyone stop talking about trainspotting! I think such a ploy detracts from criticizing what is essentially a bad bad movie, one with its head firmly up its own arse. To be a bit more controversial, this film is a silly movie with a silly message, aimed directly at the market of pill popping 'hipsters' the characters attempt to emulate, (and do quite well in some ways.) It all feels like slimy propaganda, an attempt to justify the nightmarish existence of working a soul sucking 9-5 job by escaping into drug induced euphoria at the weekend. THEY think they have found that excuse in a film that, to be fair, does manufacture a fair bit of vibrancy in its production values, its writing and its acting (John Simms, you rock!). THEY secretly close their eyes and hope they have found the holy grail of excuses in this film. Unfortunately, they haven't. Its all quite shallow and empty actually, just like the lifestyle is espouses. Yes. quite controversial. Expand

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