Human Traffic

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Funny and masterfully inventive.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

What it lacks in story, it makes up for with sharp dialogue and an amusing Walter Mitty-esque style.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Its lingering hangover, however, is decidedly pleasant.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

This British film also mocks the rave culture it celebrates, and it's charming in a way that is hip but surprisingly down to earth.

Chicago Tribune Marc Caro

You may not want to join in their activities but you're happy to have tagged along.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Fast, funny.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Mostly it's exhilarating.

Village Voice Amy Taubin

Sweet, ribald, and even inspired in an off-the-cuff way.

Film.com Gemma Files

Like memories of your latest high, it's all briefly amusing, mildly embarrassing, and - ultimately -- completely forgettable.

TV Guide Ken Fox

Brimming with fun and a few great ideas, it's little more than a foggy memory the minute it's over.

Variety Derek Elley

Well cast, engagingly played and directed with a stylistic pedal to the metal, Human Traffic is a lot of energy adding up to very little.

Film.com Ernest Hardy

Stripped of the pretension of the overrated "Trainspotting," but it's also void of the earlier film's ambition or glimmers of real cultural insight.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

'Trainspotting'' Lite.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

A bubbly, high-spirited paean to the joys of pharmaceutical phun that grooves to a throbbing beat but constantly trips over flat, prosaic dialogue and literal, lifeless sight gags.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Though it contains some very funny, cleverly written comic sketches, Human Traffic shares with other drug movies the problem that watching other people on drugs is not interesting.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

The movie is too cute to lose its head in the music. It never generates its own ecstasy.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's a 24-hour-party-people travelogue, entertaining enough to grab your eyes... but less memorable than it may at first appear.

Washington Post Alona Wartofsky

Wildly uneven--inventive and clever moments are interspersed with dull and predictable ones.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

They are, in fact, likable. That's why their comedy is so sad.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

There's an underlying emptiness to Human Traffic and it's difficult to say for sure whether Kerrigan fully acknowledges it.

LA Weekly Steven Mikulan

Turns into a driving soundtrack accompanied by a film.

USA Today Staff [Not Credited]

Someone has seen "Trainspotting" too many times, and it's writer/director Justin Kerrigan.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

So desperate to be rebellious and cool, that it's impossible to see it as anything more than one big case of "been there, done that" -- even if your drugs have already kicked in.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

I'd rather sit in bumper-to-bumper hell on I-495 for two hours than get caught in Traffic again.