Traffik

Pros: great acting, well-written story, beautiful cinematography
Cons: long

When I reviewed the American film Tr affic, fellow epinions writer Steve Lee - fi rstcontact21 - suggested I check out the version that was based on - a 6 hour British miniseries ...

Pros: A dynamic, multi-faceted revelation of the international drug trade
Cons: Five hours long

Overview

Traffik is a 1989 British mini-series directed by Alastair Reid and is the basis for the later American film, Traffic. It is much longer, about 5 hours, than the remake, but its superiority in every way...

Pros: Scenes of Karachi, London, Hamburg; authentic acting; horrific story of heroin traffic, politician's moral dilemma
Cons: None--even all the accents are right on, age trumps beauty, and evil wins.

The more one circulates through major cities of USA or Europe, the clearer it gets that it's an international crisis, this heroin trafficking. It's not just about stopping dealers here and sorry low-class ghetto-gumchewers there, although they're all a...

Pros: Acting, Interwoven stories, unforgettable, haunting
Cons: Accents are sometimes difficult to understand

This is a timeless movie of heroin and the devastation it can cause to all types of people in any of its stages. Traffik masterfully weaves 3 different storylines, each highlighting an aspect of heroin, whether it be the growing or using of it, together...