Synopsis
A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
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Cast
- Paula PattonBrea
- Omar EppsJohn
- Missi PyleDeputy Sally Marnes
- Laz AlonsoDarren Cole
- Luke GossRed
- William FichtnerMr. Waynewright
- Dawn OlivieriCara
- Priscilla QuintanaChristine
- Lorin McCraleyBilly
- Roselyn SánchezMalia
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
An effective weekend-from-hell thriller with a vital message, a terrific lead performance by Paula Patton and some unexpectedly dimensional storytelling from writer-director Deon Taylor ("Meet the Blacks"). - 55
TheWrap
It’s kind of hard to know where to begin with what’s wrong in Traffik, a movie where every scene takes about twice as long as it feels like it should, and the characters far too often make an escalating series of implausible and/or stupid decisions. - 42
The A.V. Club
Trying to figure it out makes Traffik weirdly compelling, but nowhere near good. - 40
Variety
Noble intentions are derailed by deeply confused execution in writer-director Deon Taylor’s Traffik, which attempts to marry cheap genre thrills with an unflinching depiction of the horrors of international sex trafficking, only to cheapen the latter and cast a grimy pall over the former. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
An attractive cast led by a vibrant, all-in Paula Patton and spiffy visuals courtesy of renowned cinematographer Dante Spinotti make the sleaze and predictable plotting go down a bit easier than they would have otherwise, but there's still no disguising the project's fundamentally lurid underpinnings. - 40
Paste Magazine
There doesn’t seem to be any insidious motivation behind writer/director Deon Taylor’s vision for his film, no purposeful undermining of the real impact of sex slavery by coating it in a veneer similar to what can modestly be described as a highly eroticized, run-off-the-mill basic cable home invasion thriller. It’s misguided, not nefarious. - 38
Slant Magazine
Deon Taylor seems uncomfortable with the escalating relentlessness of a siege film, eventually splitting Traffik off into a variety of other tangents and genres, diluting the potent subtext at the film's center. - 38
Movie Nation
Traffik isn’t a very good thriller, and if you aren’t two or three steps ahead of it, much of the time, you need more practice.
