Traitor Release
Date: August 27, 2008 Studio: Overture Films Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff Screenwriter: Jeffrey Nachmanoff Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Neal McDonough, Archie
Panjabi, Alyy Kahn, Said Taghmaoui Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense violent sequences, thematic material and
brief language) Official Website: Traitor-themovie.com
Plot Summary: Academy AwardŽ nominee Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda,"
"Crash") and Guy Pearce ("Memento," "L.A. Confidential") star in "Traitor," a
taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert
counter-espionage operations
EN 5 Second Review:
Another fantastic performance by Don Cheadle.
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builds to an intensely suspenseful conclusion, but what lingers long
after the film ends are the troubling questions it raises. Not too many
movies can make that claim Robert W Butler: Kansas City Star
When was the last time a big Hollywood movie treated a
sincerely religious character with dignity, much less made him the focus
of the film?...more
Traitor
traffics in the cliches of the terrorist chase film --
including the usual stereotypes of Muslims -- while trying
not to succumb to outright bigotry Phillip Kennicot: Washington Post
Once again there are terrorists in our midst, and once again
they are Muslims, hiding in sleeper cells, posing as
ordinary Americans, waiting to cause mayhem. Heroic action
is needed...more
EN 5 Second Review:
Another fantastic performance by Don Cheadle.
Traitor
traffics in the cliches of the terrorist chase film --
including the usual stereotypes of Muslims -- while trying
not to succumb to outright bigotry