Traitor
When straight-arrow agent Roy Clayton assumes command of a special FBI task force, he becomes entangled in a web of covert operations with all clues seeming to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
27 April 1968, Faial, Açores, Portugal
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
31 May 1972, Edgware, Middlesex, England, UK
13 September 1967, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
9 February 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
March 13, 2011
If it doesn't succeed in challenging you perception of the war on terror, it might challenge your view on Steve Martin.
November 07, 2008
A good political action movie that makes you use your brain a little bit.
August 29, 2008
Traitor gets a leg up thanks to a solid cast, including Guy Pearce, an underused Jeff Daniels and chiefly Cheadle's Horn, whose quiet dignity makes his blurred loyalties believable and his true sympathies indefinable.
November 04, 2010
Surprisingly, Steve Martin created this story. In a decade of wild and crazy fictional terrorism, his was the most horrifyingly plausible - one that spun terrorism as drama into uncomfortable community theater, striking the country's friendliest corners.
March 13, 2016
...one can't help but embrace the slow-moving narrative to an increasingly palpable degree.
March 27, 2009
Once the pieces fall into place, it loses momentum, meandering towards a contrived climax in which all ambiguity is swept aside and the forces of righteous democracy prove reassuringly triumphant.
November 07, 2008
It was complicated but ultimately it failed in that attempt to deliver a complicated message.
August 15, 2011
Simmers down into a reasonably smart little thriller with a moral conscience, yet.
August 30, 2009
As a thriller, Traitor excels and feels especially relevant, considering the subject matter.
August 29, 2008
Promising premise devolves into a by-the-numbers espionage thriller.
December 17, 2009
We watch for the sake of the chase, and while it's a chase that certainly proves better than most, it's also one that is good enough to have been even better than that.
November 07, 2008
Let's just say this is a well paced thriller with a strong cast -- it's good to see Guy Pearce on screen -- but the terrorist threat which obsessed the recent Bush administration has been dwarfed by a couple of things...
