Traffik's reviews
Media reviews
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')".
The Wrap
"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".
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".
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".
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote