Traitor PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 19, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Don Cheadle & Guy Pearce | |
Performer: | Saïd Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Alyy Khan & Jeff Daniels | |
Directed by | Jeffrey Nachmanoff | |
Edited by | Billy Fox | |
Screenwriting by | Jeffrey Nachmanoff | |
Composition by | Mark Kilian | |
Produced by | David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Don Cheadle & Jeffrey Silver | |
Director of Photography: | J. Michael Muro | |
Executive Production by | Ashok Amritraj, Steve Martin, Arlene Gibbs & Kay Liberman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Traitor has its faults. It's overlong, contrived in parts and ultimately resorts to some predictable tactics. The irresistible question is whether the US would be making films like this if 9/11 hadn't happened.
Little White Lies
Rating: 3/4 --
...one can't help but embrace the slow-moving narrative to an increasingly palpable degree.
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 3/6 --
Once the pieces fall into place, it loses momentum, meandering towards a contrived climax in which all ambiguity is swept aside and the forces of righteous democracy prove reassuringly triumphant.
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Time Out
Simmers down into a reasonably smart little thriller with a moral conscience, yet.
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East Bay Express
Rating: 2/5 --
Much harder to see coming is the film's denouement, but that's only because of its extreme silliness.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
The moral maze is not quite as murky as it should be, a suspicion that we may have misjudged the hero whisks the film back into the realms of fiction, and detracts from the issues it raises.
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Times (UK)
[S]omber, absorbing....[TRAITOR] manages an impressive feat of economy....[With an] unassuming style and tightly focused story...
New York Times
Product Description:
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 ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born, Chicago-raised former U.S. Army Special Forces operative. The action begins with a jarring prologue set in Sudan in 1978, where the young Samir witnesses the murder of his father by car bombing. Jumping swiftly to present day Yemen, Samir, in a dramatically ironic twist, is revealed as a mercenary selling explosives to Muslim extremists. But what is never completely clear throughout TRAITOR's numerous plot-twists is just where Horn's allegiances truly lie: is he an American spy infiltrating a Jihadist plot or a devout Muslim who has traded his sympathies with the West' When an arms sale runs afoul, Samir is jailed in a Yemeni prison where he befriends Omar (Said Taghmaoui), a ringleader of a terrorist organization that is being watched by the F.B.I. A bold prison break is hatched and the pair begins collaborating on a series of bombings throughout Europe. As Samir becomes embroiled in ever-escalating terror plots, it becomes clear that he is duplicitously playing both sides at growing danger to himself and the lives of innocent people. Cut with a breathless, war reportage-styled pace, TRAITOR is an action-packed, suspense-filled thriller whose seemingly equivocal ideological veneer can be summed up as: "In war, there are no winners."
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