Im thinking people who judge this harshly are full of shit...yes there were parts where characters made stupid decisions but in the moment who doesnt, some parts escaped me, but it had a great message and developing story to be an important watch.

i dont understand the hate here. i saw this movie tonite with a friend, and we both loved it. it was very scary, in that it could happen to you! extremely well acted, suspenseful, just very well done! i never agree with critics, and love what they dislike and the opposite. great flick! see it before it leaves the theaters!

Super exciting! I recommend it to everyone!

Slow Start. Paula Patton plays a role that is different than the other roles she has appeared in the past. As the story continued, Paula appeared to settle into the character and let us see all the layers of the character that needed to be portrayed.

I think the Hollywood critics are smoking crack! This was a pretty well done film, a bit cliché, but otherwise well done. Yes, you could tell what was going to happen at times, but how is that different than other more popular movies? It's not. Sometimes I think that the 'experts" take this a little too seriously. Yes, movies are 10-15 bucks, and we want good entertainment, but not everything is going to be a cinematic tour de force.22%? really??I disagree. The plot was decent, followed a fairly predictable series of acts, a climax prior to the end, and wrapped up at the end. It was a classic tale of good vs. evil told in a modern light and again, the pro critics are out to lunch. It seems to happen quite a bit on here, to the point that I am not really taking them too seriously anymore. How "in touch" are they when there is a 40% spread between the pro critics and the audience? That is a thinker.It won't win any awards, but its worth the price of admission in my humble amateur citizen opinion.

Really good movie, holds a strong purpose other than a suspense or action movie. Recommend to thrill seekers and suspense lovers! Very realistic and scary to think of reality.

Better than expected and some exciting moments and even told an interesting story

This was an excellent movie. Would see it again.

Starts out slow as it tries to build towards an exciting finish. This one will have you yelling at the screen a few times and sheds light on a dark subject. 3.5/5.

This movie is actually dope af!!!! Go see it!

"Traffik" (R, 1:36) is a 2018 crime thriller. And it IS important to have the year in my initial description of this film, because not only is this not the first movie to use that word as its title, but it's not even the first one to leave off the "c" in an attempt to distinguish itself from earlier similarly-titled films. Of course, regardless of how it's spelled, a movie with that word in the title is practically guaranteed to be about bad people doing bad things across borders. Written and directed by Deon Taylor ("Meet the Blacks", "Supremacy", "Chain Letter"), 2018's "Traffik" flirts with a home invasion plot, but is primarily about the brutal subject of human trafficking.Paula Patton and Omar Epps star as Brea and John, a couple who haven't been dating very long, but who are very much in love and seem ready to take their relationship to the next level. Brea is a Sacramento reporter struggling to please her demanding editor (William Fichtner) and John is a very skilled mechanic who has some big birthday surprises in store for Brea. Darren (Laz Alonso), John's loyal but obnoxious sports agent buddy, is letting John use his fancy house in the mountains for the weekend. It's just the break from work that Brea needs - and just the romantic hideaway that John needs for his big plans.But this movie is more thriller than romance and the romance soon takes a backseat to the thrills. On the way to this house in the woods, John and Brea stop at a gas station where John is harassed by some backwoods locals and Brea sees a woman (Dawn Olivieri), who is bruised, shaken and seems in need of her help. Brea is unsure what she can or should do for the woman and when a local sheriff (Missi Pyle) sees what's happening with John and those bad ol' boys, she steps in and Brea and John drive away.Unfortunately for John and Brea, that gas station stop has repercussions for the rest of their weekend - and the rest of their lives. One of the tough guys from the gas station revs up his motorcycle, follows the couple and tries to run them off the road. John loses him, but Brea is still haunted by her encounter with the woman in the gas station restroom. At the house, the couple manage a brief romantic interlude, but it's cut short when Darren and his girlfriend (Roselyn Sanchez) show up at the house unannounced. Soon following suit is the woman from the gas station, her "boyfriend" - and his boss. They want a satellite phone that the woman slipped into Brea's purse and they're very... insistent. (Romantic weekend over.)"Traffik" is suitably thrilling and serious-minded, but feels contrived. The plot points seem randomly generated, far-fetched and melodramatic, yet the story deals creatively with an important issue. Overall, the strong performances, the thrills and the drama are sufficient to make for an entertaining movie. "B"

So much more than what I was expecting. If you saw the trailer to this movie, not only does it barely scrape the surface of what's going on but it's a little misleading to what the film is really about. It's not the best movie in the world, as it's a little too obviously being used as a vehicle for Paula Patton (who also produced it) to show how well she can do in the driver's seat as a leading lady, but the overall direction it's heading down was very satisfying to see.

This movie was soo good. It was kind of suspenseful, had me jumping some.

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.

Traffik is a feature that will probably gets its widest audience on VOD but would be fun to see in a theater. You can just imagine the people screaming "Kill them!" en masse.