I Was Expecting Much More.

The previews make this movie look great. Almost like a Bourne type flick. To be honest with you, there were probably only one or two action related scenes. I personally don't mind films containing no action, but when it is advertised as action packed, I usually expect just that.

"Traitor" is your normal run of the mill suspense thriller. It is about a man turned terrorist named Samir Horn (Don Cheadle). He is caught selling some nuclear devices in a foreign country, and is held in jail for a bit of time. He then breaks out with a terrorist organization he ends up joining. The group asks him to go on a number of terrorist missions: bombing, etc. Meanwhile the Government is hunting him down with tons of evidence against him. He ends up helping the Government out by giving out directions to the final operation. Samir is than home free.

I wasn't very impressed with the main scheme of this film. I've seen it all before. If they would have added some more aspects mentioned in the plot and trailers, it would have been great. I also noticed it kept going for too long of a period. They tried too hard to get the point of the film across.

Positive aspects: Good story, nice cast, unique filming locations, and pretty suspenseful for the first half hour-forty five minutes. Not a bad film per-say, but not anywhere near what I would have imagined.



5/10