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Watch: Traffic 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – An intertwined drama about the United States’ war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin’s wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss’s motives..
Plot: An exploration of the United States of America’s war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin’s sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband’s ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 208,235
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	86/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1761 Popularity: 23.575 | TMDB

Reviews:

Seen this a few times over the years and still remains a compelling multi-character drama with some fine performances all around. Also has some great visuals depending on the storyline. Not sure where I rank it amongst Soderbergh’s other works (Ocean’s 11 has the fun factory going for it) but still love it no matter how many times I’ve seen it. **4.5/5**

**Someone needs to go back to directing school**

This gem of the millennium comes with a great story (which has been done countless times before and after), great actors (funny faced most of them), and very well done action.

Unfortunately all is wasted on the terrible actual telling of that story and its people in action. We get weird colors, useless zoom ins, shots into nothing, a boring soundtrack, the whole thing stripped off any continuity and stretched to 2 hours 30 minutes.

It is understandable the makers of this film wanted to underline the realism with a documentary style, but come on. Or maybe they just were on some of the drugs shown in the picture, or maybe, and that must be it, they wanted the audience to feel like they were on drugs.

9 June 2017

I am migrating my reviews from a different site which has become simply garbage. TMDB looks awesome and I look forward to be a part of it.

One of the best movies of the year, but not worthy of ALL of its praise. ***1/2 (out of four)
TRAFFIC / (2000) ***1/2 (out of four)

“Traffic” caught some of the most gratifying praise in the year 2000. Does the production live up to its expectations? To some extent. It is not a movie to take the family to on a Sunday afternoon, nor is it an “entertaining” popcorn extravaganza. “Traffic” is one of the best films of the year, but it is not a movie for everyone. I had my fair share of disappointments, and I think many audiences will walk away unsatisfied by its documentary-like style and unusual structure. “Traffic” is still a great achievement in filmmaking and visual style-worthy of some, but not quite all, of its great acclamation.

The movie’s director, Steven Soderbergh, won Oscar nominations for both of his movies last year: “Erin Brockovich” starring Julia Roberts, and this epic about the never ending war on drugs. That first film is entertaining and charming, but this is far more complex in its story. There are actually three separate plots here, the first detailing two Tijuana cops (Benicio Del Toro and Jacob Vargas) who find themselves in the middle of a corrupt police force, working for Gereal Arturo Salazar (Thomas Milian), Mexico’s top drug aggressor who wants to shut down the Tijuana drug cartel by capturing a notorious assassin (Clifton Collins Jr.).

The second story has Michael Douglas as a conservative Ohio State Supreme Court Judge turned nation’s new drug czar. He has a savage job, as we can see, but it is even more difficult being the father of a 16-year-old daughter (Erika Christensen), who gets straight A’s in school, but uses heavy drugs and eventually prostitutes herself for them when the supply runs low. Amy Irving plays her mother whom herself tried every kind of drug in the market when she was young and thinks her daughter should be given more freedom in this area of maturing. Her husband strongly disagrees.

The third story is a bit more complicated, dealing with the reactions of a typical pregnant homemaker, Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), when she finds out her husband, Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer), is not an executive, but a high-powered drug lord. He is taken into custody when undercover DEA agents Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luiz Guzman) crack a disreputable drug cartel led by Juan Orbergon (Benjamin Bratt). Helena, with the help from her attorney (Dennis Quaid), must deal with the pressures by her husband’s demanding enemies, as well as the DEA. Miguel Ferrer plays the middle-run drug dealer who is captured by the DEA agents and wants immunity for testifying against the high-powered bosses for whom he works.

“Traffic” does not have the harrowing, compassionate, hard-to-watch tone that “Requiem for a Dream” had earlier last year, which also contained three different although parallel stories. That film depicted drug use as personal success followed by desolation and punishment. “Traffic” doesn’t really make drugs personal, although the plot featuring Michael Douglas’ drug addicted daughter touches on the idea, and the actors do a good job of making the character’s attitudes hit home, but the film is more about the war on drugs within America as a country, and how it is a battle not likely to be won anytime soon. The picture does not capture the feeling of the characters like “Requiem for a Dream” did with its highly elaborate styles and camera effects. “Traffic” just isn’t as emotionally profound as the much more worthy “Requiem for a Dream.”

Steven Soderbergh does manage to capture an inciting style with grainy, high contrast photography exploring the atmosphere of Mexico. He pays attention to even the smallest scenes. Take a scene where the Benicio De Toro character encounters a young married couple who complain about their stolen car. Many directors would have left this scene on the editing tables, or paid less courtesy to it because it is not as important as many other scenes. He gets the right mood, confusion of the characters, all while furthering the development of De Toro’s character. Each individual scene here is interesting on its own merit.

A top notch cast contributes superb performances in “Traffic.” We expect and receive good performances from actors like Michael Douglas, Amy Irving, Dennis Quaid, Benicio Del Toro, and Albert Finney, but there are also some newcomers who shine with their material, including Erika Christensen and Topher Gracer. The actors really hold our attention, and with a running time of nearly 150 minutes, that is imperative. This film is greatly constructed and perfectly cast-it is the kind of movie in which you walk out of the theater wanting to discuss your opinions about it.

Soderbergh scores again!
Director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, “Traffic,” covers the US/Mexican War on Drugs-specifically, cocaine-from several different angles. Three separate but interconnected storylines show dealers, users, cops, smugglers, lawyers, government officials-everyone but the South American growers.

We get to hear the arguments on all sides and see the impacts on many people’s lives-innocent, guilty, and everywhere in between. But in an early scene when Erika Christensen takes her first hit of freebase, the look of sheer bliss on her face sends the message that this war is already lost. As long as something can give people this kind of high, they won’t care about how much it costs them and not all the laws and governments on Earth will keep it from getting to them.

The cast is large, full of good actors in juicy roles-Michael Douglas, Benecio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Miguel Ferrer, to name a few. Newcomers Christensen and Topher Grace stand out as spoiled teenage cokeheads. And if you look carefully, you can spot brief appearances by Albert Finney, Salma Hayek, James Brolin, and Benjamin Bratt. There are also cameos at a cocktail party by a real-life governor and five senators, at least one of whom (Orrin Hatch) has since denounced the film.

Each storyline is photographed in a different style-all shot by Soderbergh himself, with a hand-held camera, under the pseudonym Peter Andrews. Cincinnati and Washington are blue, hard, and cold; Mexico is overexposed, dusty, and brown-filtered; and San Diego is warm and soft-focused. At times I thought the jerky camera movement and jump cut editing started to get pretentiously artsy and distracting, but the story and the characters always pulled me back in.

The script by Stephen Gaghan-based on a 1990 British TV miniseries-may use situations and character types familiar to us from years of TV cop shows and other movies, but Soderbergh and the cast make them seem fresh and exciting again. For a change, style and substance work together, not against each other. It was like when I saw DePalma’s “Scarface” or the series “Miami Vice” for the first time.

The only time my credulity was challenged was when drug czar Douglas went looking for his addict daughter in the worst-and apparently all-black-part of Cincinnati, kicking down doors and threatening an armed dealer himself. The guy’s supposed to be a popular, hard-nosed, law-and-order judge. Surely he could’ve found some sympathetic cops to handle the rough stuff for him. This, for me, was the only scene where the movie took a turn for the stupid. And, to the film’s credit, this stupid behavior almost gets Douglas killed.

Soderbergh got my attention three years ago with “Out of Sight” and knocked me out again last year with “Erin Brockovich”. He fully deserves all the nominations and awards he’s been getting lately. >

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 27 min (147 min), 3 hr 10 min (190 min) (rough cut)
Budget 48000000
Revenue 207515725
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Steven Soderbergh
Writer Simon Moore, Stephen Gaghan
Actors Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Country United States, Germany
Awards Won 4 Oscars. 74 wins & 87 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA, Frank Holmes Laboratories, San Fernando (CA), USA (processing: Ektachrome reversal)
Film Length 4,045 m (Sweden), 4,104 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 320T 5277, Vision 800T 5289)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format) (some scenes), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm