Traitor (film)
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $22 million |
Box office | $27.6 million[2] |
Traitor is a 2008 American spy thriller film written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, based on a story by Steve Martin. In the film, a former Sudanese-American US soldier (Don Cheadle) with a background in explosives is the prime suspect in a search by an FBI Special Agent (Guy Pearce) for the bomb-maker in a string of global terror explosions aimed at civilians.
The film was released on August 27, 2008. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $27 million against its $22 million budget.
Plot
Samir Horn is an
Joining al-Nathir, Samir uses the skills he learned as a
Impressed with Samir, Fareed introduces him to leader Nathir, who discloses a plot to place suicide bombers on 50 buses in the US during Thanksgiving. He instructs Samir to act as liaison to each of the al-Nathir sleeper bombers. Later, Carter unwittingly interrupts a meeting between Samir and Omar, and Omar kills Carter.
Samir reveals his deep cover to Clayton, who tracks him to
Samir later tells Clayton he feels guilty for killing innocent people, and that the
Cast
- Don Cheadle as Samir Horn
- Guy Pearce as FBI Special Agent Roy Clayton
- Saïd Taghmaoui as Omar
- Neal McDonough as FBI Special Agent Max Archer
- Jeff Daniels as Carter
- Archie Panjabi as Chandra Dawkin
- Mozhan Marnò as Leyla
- Lorena Gale as Dierdre Horn
- Cora Madison as Kayleigh, Omar's adopted girl
- Alyy Khan as Fareed
- Raad Rawi as Nathir
- Adeel Akhtar as Hamzi
- Marshall Manesh as Camel trainer
- Susan Howard as Moroccan housemaid
Production
The project had been in development since 2002 and was originally set to be produced by
Reception
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 65% based on 169 reviews, with an average rating of 6.19/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Despite another reliable performance from Don Cheadle, Traitor suffers from too many cliches and an unfocused narrative."[4] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote in his review, "The movie proceeds quickly, seems to know its subject matter, is fascinating in its portrait of the inner politics and structure of the terrorist group, and comes uncomfortably close to reality. But what holds it together is the Cheadle character."[6]
Box office
The film opened #5 with $7.9 million from 2,054 in its opening weekend.[7] It went on to gross $23.5 million in the United States, and $2.2 million in other markets, for a total $27.6 million worldwide.[2]
Related films
References
- ^ Grierson, Tim (17 August 2008). "Traitor". Screen International. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Traitor (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
- ISSN 0018-3660. Archived from the originalon 2007-07-13. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
- ^ "Traitor Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Traitor Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
- ^ "Roger Ebert Review". The Chicago Sun-Times. 2008-09-14. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
- ^ "Weekend Box Office Results from 8/29 to 8/31". Box Office Mojo. 2008-08-31. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
- ^ "Anwar". CineBuzz. Archived from the original on 28 October 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
External links
- Traitor at AllMovie
- Traitor at Box Office Mojo
- Traitor at IMDb
- Traitor at the Internet Movie Firearms Database
- Traitor at Rotten Tomatoes