MOVIE REVIEWS: TRAITOR
Wednesday, August 27 2008
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Several critics seem to suggest that Traitor, starring Don Cheadle, tries to take a complicated story and condense it for easy digestion -- but succeeds only in giving the audience something to chew on. As A.O. Scott puts it in the New York Times: "The movie ... tries to cover every side and cater to just about every possible ideological objection, an effort at comprehensiveness that seems noble and a little nutty." Similarly Tom Maurstad in the Dallas Morning News writes that "this movie tries to blur the line between action-thriller and a probing drama. The result is a confused and unsatisfying experience with some nice moments that don't amount to much." But Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune writers that the movie "tells a good, snakelike story, slithering in some unpredictable directions." And just about everyone heaps praise on the performance of Don Cheadle. Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer observes that while the movie "never fully engages the ethical conflicts it raises," Cheadle "delivers an electrifying performance."
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