Out of Sight brought a suppleness to the traditional star vehicle, The Limey dizzily jumbled expectations in a revenge plot, Erin Brockovich expertly balanced the dictates of political film and inspirational comedy, and Traffic looks coldly but energetically at the drug war. Each film also manages the feat of being an obviously personal project of its director. That's what makes it a stealth attack, of course.
Traffic is movie excitement from beginning to end.
What's new is the overall acknowledgment of failure. Absolutely nothing in the system works, Traffic says, and everybody knows it. Soderbergh, who operated the mostly handheld camera himself, serves up this American saga with bracing speed, but without losing psychological density. The best kind. Trailers, clips, photos and other media presented here are used with the permission of the studios amd respective copyright holders listed.