Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Traffik - Miniseries - The Greatest American Movie
Wow! I really loved the movie Traffik - Miniseries. The movie is absolutely stunning with top-notch graphics and visuals while Bill Paterson deliver some award-winning performances in this movie.
I also think Lindsay Duncan was great! The visuals and graphics make for some very realistic on screen special-effects but that is the beauty of the movie.When the movie wants to be funny it is funny, the same is true for when the movie needs to deliver its scary aspects.
I think Bill Paterson and Lindsay Duncan worked wonderful in Traffik - Miniseries. The great supporting cast includes Bill Paterson, Lindsay Duncan, Jamal Shah, Talat Hussain, Fritz Mller-Scherz.
You should see it, make no mistake this is a definite blockbuster!
I think Bill Paterson and Lindsay Duncan worked wonderful in Traffik - Miniseries. The great supporting cast includes Bill Paterson, Lindsay Duncan, Jamal Shah, Talat Hussain, Fritz Mller-Scherz.
I left some information, immages, and video previews of Traffik - Miniseries below.
Summary of Traffik - Miniseries:
Like The Singing Detective, Alastair Reid's award-winning 1989 British miniseries (broadcast in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theatre) has taken on mythic status. The critical and box-office success of Steven Soderbergh's Oscar-winning feature-film adaptation paved the way for Traffik's home-video release, and it's an even more gripping and devastating experience. This is understandable in that it unfolds over five riveting hours, allowing for richer characterization. Traffik also operates on a broader canvas, as the interlocking stories play out in such far-flung locales as London and Hamburg, Germany, as well as Pakistan, a reminder that the war on drugs--in this case, heroin--is a global one. Comparisons between the miniseries and the movie are inevitable, and in the role played by Michael Douglas, Bill Paterson (perhaps best known as the lovelorn disc jockey in Comfort and Joy) makes a more convincing bureaucratic Everyman trying to hash out a financial-aid agreement with Pakistan that would eradicate the impoverished farmers' precious poppy crop. His world is shattered when his own daughter (Julia Ormond in her heartbreaking screen debut) becomes an addict. Lindsay Duncan is even more chilling than Catherine Zeta-Jones as Helen, a "housewife" who takes over her husband's smuggling operation when he is arrested. Aware of his illicit activities, she vows, "I'm not going to let go of everything we fought for." In the Don Cheadle role is Fritz Mller-Scherz as Ulli, a crafty and relentless German detective on Helen's case. One tragic story line unique to the miniseries concerns Fazal (Jamal Shah), an impoverished Pakistani farmer who finds work with Tariq Butt (Tallat Hussain), a major drug trafficker. This is one of television's finest hours (or five), and it's impossible not to get caught up in it. --Donald Liebenson
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Traffik - Miniseries Trailer:
You can get Traffik - Miniseries at www.Amazon.com as well.
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I also think Lindsay Duncan was great! The visuals and graphics make for some very realistic on screen special-effects but that is the beauty of the movie.When the movie wants to be funny it is funny, the same is true for when the movie needs to deliver its scary aspects.
I think Bill Paterson and Lindsay Duncan worked wonderful in Traffik - Miniseries. The great supporting cast includes Bill Paterson, Lindsay Duncan, Jamal Shah, Talat Hussain, Fritz Mller-Scherz.
You should see it, make no mistake this is a definite blockbuster!
WATCH Traffik - Miniseries ONLINE BY CLICKING HERE!
I think Bill Paterson and Lindsay Duncan worked wonderful in Traffik - Miniseries. The great supporting cast includes Bill Paterson, Lindsay Duncan, Jamal Shah, Talat Hussain, Fritz Mller-Scherz.
I left some information, immages, and video previews of Traffik - Miniseries below.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Traffik - Miniseries ONLINE!
Summary of Traffik - Miniseries:
Like The Singing Detective, Alastair Reid's award-winning 1989 British miniseries (broadcast in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theatre) has taken on mythic status. The critical and box-office success of Steven Soderbergh's Oscar-winning feature-film adaptation paved the way for Traffik's home-video release, and it's an even more gripping and devastating experience. This is understandable in that it unfolds over five riveting hours, allowing for richer characterization. Traffik also operates on a broader canvas, as the interlocking stories play out in such far-flung locales as London and Hamburg, Germany, as well as Pakistan, a reminder that the war on drugs--in this case, heroin--is a global one. Comparisons between the miniseries and the movie are inevitable, and in the role played by Michael Douglas, Bill Paterson (perhaps best known as the lovelorn disc jockey in Comfort and Joy) makes a more convincing bureaucratic Everyman trying to hash out a financial-aid agreement with Pakistan that would eradicate the impoverished farmers' precious poppy crop. His world is shattered when his own daughter (Julia Ormond in her heartbreaking screen debut) becomes an addict. Lindsay Duncan is even more chilling than Catherine Zeta-Jones as Helen, a "housewife" who takes over her husband's smuggling operation when he is arrested. Aware of his illicit activities, she vows, "I'm not going to let go of everything we fought for." In the Don Cheadle role is Fritz Mller-Scherz as Ulli, a crafty and relentless German detective on Helen's case. One tragic story line unique to the miniseries concerns Fazal (Jamal Shah), an impoverished Pakistani farmer who finds work with Tariq Butt (Tallat Hussain), a major drug trafficker. This is one of television's finest hours (or five), and it's impossible not to get caught up in it. --Donald Liebenson
CLICK ON IMAGE BELOW TO GET Traffik - Miniseries ONLINE:
Traffik - Miniseries Trailer:
You can get Traffik - Miniseries at www.Amazon.com as well.
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