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- 2018
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- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
Traffik
37
4.3
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
37
10% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
40% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
37
10% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
40% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
An effective weekend-from-hell thriller with a vital message, a terrific lead performance by Paula Patton and some unexpectedly dimensional storytelling from writer-director Deon Taylor ("Meet the Blacks").
Trying to figure it out makes Traffik weirdly compelling, but nowhere near good.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 User Ratings
4.3
20% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
48% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
32% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 User Ratings
4.3
20% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
48% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
32% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Traffik is a powerful film that details the billion dollar industry of sex trafficking. The film should spark meaningful discussions for people who take the time to see it. While highlighting this global issue Traffik also delivers the base criteria for a film which is being something that is entertaining. Powerful, compelling, and intense Traffik is something that will pleasantly surprise many people if they first can find themselves attempting to watch the movie.
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Bland thriller that doesn't know how to be both a message film and deliver exploitative thrills. So it instead mutes both elements leaving a film that is only intermittenly interesting. The cast tries its best and Paula Patton is terrific. But the film takes disturbing subject matter and mutes the message in an attempt to have it appeal to a mainstream audience. A film that is too tame for its own good.
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There doesn’t seem to be any insidious motivation behind writer/director Deon Taylor’s vision for his film, no purposeful undermining of the real impact of sex slavery by coating it in a veneer similar to what can modestly be described as a highly eroticized, run-off-the-mill basic cable home invasion thriller. It’s misguided, not nefarious.
Noble intentions are derailed by deeply confused execution in writer-director Deon Taylor’s Traffik, which attempts to marry cheap genre thrills with an unflinching depiction of the horrors of international sex trafficking, only to cheapen the latter and cast a grimy pall over the former.
Traffik isn’t a very good thriller, and if you aren’t two or three steps ahead of it, much of the time, you need more practice.
Noble intentions, ignoble results.
Traffik begins with that classic cinematic lie “inspired by true events” and ends with statistics for women who have been victims of human trafficking. Between these two bookends is a steaming pile of exploitative horse manure masquerading as a feature concerned with the sexual enslavement of women.
Maintains some tension, but it's just a mediocre film, unfortunately. It does highlight, though, a most important issue, that of the global human traffiking of women, and those in positions of power who choose to look the other way or even share in the profiteering.
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Believe the low raters, it's rubbish.
I don't understand how a movie like this even gets on the market! I am not gonna write a extended critic, it isn't worth it, and other people already made the effort explaining why in extend. I must admire that, cool seeing the community fighting back against manipulated ratings!
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This is what you expect from lionsgate people expected the next citizen Kane or Shawshank redemption nope traffik is another excuse by lionsgate it is just a generic kidnap movie and of course its lionsgate quality so its very bad
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Production Company
Summit Entertainment,
Codeblack Films,
Hidden Empire Film Group (HEFG)
Release Date Apr 20, 2018
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Tagline Refuse To Be A Victim
Website
http://Traffik.Movie/
Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination
African Movie Academy Awards
• 1 Nomination