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Mood:
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- ThrillerAction
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- Contemporary21st Century
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Traitor, 2008
English, Arabic
USA
Profile of Traitor
The mood of Traitor is exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around the protagonist as suspect, working undercover, and espionage. It is a thriller and action movie. Stylistically, Traitor involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is fast. Traitor happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.
Summary of Traitor
Traitor is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born, Chicago-raised former U.S. Army Special Forces operative. The action begins with a jarring prologue set in Sudan in 1978, where the young Samir witnesses the murder of his father by car bombing. Jumping swiftly to present day Yemen, Samir, in a dramatically ironic twist, is revealed as a mercenary selling explosives to Muslim extremists. But what is never completely clear throughout Traitor's numerous plot-twists is just where Horn's allegiances truly lie: is he an American spy infiltrating a Jihadist plot or a devout Muslim who has traded his sympathies with the West? When an arms sale runs afoul, Samir is jailed in a Yemeni prison where he befriends Omar (Said Taghmaoui), a ringleader of a terrorist organization that is being watched by the F.B.I. A bold prison break is hatched and the pair begins collaborating on a series of bombings throughout Europe. As Samir becomes embroiled in ever-escalating terror plots, it becomes clear that he is duplicitously playing both sides at growing danger to himself and the lives of innocent people. Cut with a breathless, war reportage-styled pace, Traitor is an action-packed, suspense-filled thriller whose seemingly equivocal ideological veneer can be summed up as: "In war, there are no winners."
Details
| Language: | English, Arabic |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 August 2008 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
Cast and Crew
as Samir Horn
as Roy Clayton
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Nathan Rabin
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Kirk Honeycutt
Users Reviews
- 05.January.2011
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- by: Hollissima
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