Last night I had the distinct pleasure of viewing Crescendo Production’s Traitor, starring Don Cheadle. It is a rare occasion that I don’t find at least some facet of a movie that I can appreciate, whether it be the cinematography, an underlying message, or even the performance of one actor who lifts the overall impression of the film despite the lack of a storyline. Traitor has no such redeeming qualities.

This movie handles one of the most critical topics of this century, terrorism and its raison d’etre, with such broad brushstrokes and oafishness as to be rightfully called irresponsible.  The first half hour or more of this movie literally comes across as an Al Quaeda recruitment video with higher production values and less angry Arabic.

We see resolute, smart, well-educated, and self-disciplined men masterminding attacks on western targets.  The motivations of Cheadle’s character Samir Horn, are unclear, but his actions are certainly frightening; he is providing massive deliveries of high-tech plastic explosives Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: Al Quaeda, Don Cheadle, Guy Pierce, Politics, Terrorism, Traitor