Review of Traitor

Traitor (2008)
6/10
Terrorism is bad, Cheadle is good, movie is so-so
4 September 2008
This movie is OK, but not great. It's got some nice twists which I am still kind of confused about. It also is one of those films that's basically a spy movie set to the tune of terrorism. Fools and suckers who might vote for McCain and that ridiculous woman can feel they understand the war on terror. But we don't gain any insight just paranoid thrills, and more stuff blowing up, and deaths galore without any follow up. It's the same ol' same ol' but, at worst, a harmful Hollywood bamboozle.

I guess Don Cheadle could read the phone book and you'd take it seriously, what with that great troubled, earnest face of his. I'm not sure why, given his last few movies which were full of conscience, he needed to make this. Surely not for the money?! Like a phone book, I don't think movie is necessary. But people still use phone books and, like anything where there are a few good twists and turns, stuff explodes, and we go home safe, there's always an audience for it.
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