Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones Directed by Steven Soderbergh Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan Music by Cliff Martinez Cinematography by Steven Soderbergh Director Steven Soderbergh deserves full credit for attempting this epic saga of America's troublesome drug war. In the end, he leaves us with little hope.
Drug traffic is a subject that has no real solution.
For every billion the U.S. taxpayers throw against this lost war, the drug cartels throw 20 billion to counteract the effort. The money to corrupt officials on both sides of the border is endless. As long as there is a demand for drugs in the U.S., the supplies will exist. Perhaps this is Soderbergh's point. Based on a British TV mini-series, Traffik, Soderbergh and screenwriter Stephen Gaghan use three unrelated stories that are similar only in that each tale deals with drugs.