kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** The conflicted and all screwed up life of US special operation sergeant Samir Hom,Don Cheadle, is tested by both his adopted country the USA and his religion Islam in him going through with a planned terrorist attack against the US on of all days Thanksgiving that involves the destruction of 50 cross country buses carrying hundreds of unsuspecting and innocent civilians. Forced to go undercover as an Islamic terrorist Samir was already involved in a terrorist attack on the US consulate in Nice France that killed 8 people. Now he's told by his US controller Carter, Jeff Danials, to provide the explosives that can kills almost as many US citizens that were killed back on 9/11.It's US CIA agent Roy Clayton, Guy Pearce, who got wind of Samir's working for the US Government not against who it who tried to get him to reveal those terrorists like his good friend Omar, Said Taghmaoui, plans to blow up America. With Samir not really trusting anyone, including Agent Clayton, he decides to go it alone leaving himself open to be killed by the both the terrorists as well as US Government's homeland security agents. That by him secretly planting all the explosives with the 50 designated Islamic terrorists and their American victims. And he did it in a way that no one including the terrorists as well as Agent Clayton ever expected.***SPOILERS*** We get to see Samir finally see the light in just who his friends as well as enemies are. Even though he works for the US Government Samir was still a loyal and practicing Moslem at heart but he soon realized that those he worked with-like Omar- actions were anything that had to do with his faith or religion. Which like him witnessing as a young boy his father being blown to bits in a terrorist car bombing back in the Sudan. He knew that those terrorists that he was secretly working for were no better then those who murdered his father and in the end acted accordingly.

Leofwine_draca TRAITOR is one of those post-BOURNE thrillers to come out that openly apes the style of Paul Greengrass in THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM. It features randomly shaky camera-work (which isn't as easy to get right as it sounds) and a thumpingly dramatic soundtrack that directly apes the music in the Matt Damon films. Saying that, it's more of a political than an action thriller.The story sees Don Cheadle as a bomb-maker working with Arab terrorists to attack America. The first problem you notice is that the film has a low budget by Hollywood standards and pretty much all of the money has been spent on assembling the cast and shooting in various international backdrops. The story prioritises conflicted characters over dramatic external events, but the problem is that what takes place is very familiar and some of the twists are widely telegraphed in advance. Cheadle and the likes of Guy Pearce and Neal McDonough give solid performances but overall I found this to be a film that goes through the motions rather than offering anything new.

richieandsam TRAITORI really enjoyed it.Again, this is one of those movies that I had never heard of but saw the DVD cheap and thought I would try it.It's about a terrorist group who are planning to bomb America. Don Cheadle is a terrorist that is planting these bombs... Guy Pearce is an FBI agent tracking him. It is a good chase film... Don is running and hiding, but Guy is right behind him the whole way... he just can't seem to catch him.The acting was good and the story was really good. There were a few surprising moments in the movie and a couple of really good twists.It was really bad timing to watch this movie though... after this film finished I turned on the news and heard that there really was a bombing in America. 2 bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. at least 8 people confirmed dead so far, including an 8 year old child. It is such a shame that things like this happen in real life. It makes a great movie story like in Traitor, but it is a sad day when terrorism happens and kills innocent people. My thoughts go out to the people effected by this attack.I give this film 7 out of 10.It's a very entertaining movie and was surprisingly not very well known... it should have done better in the box office.For more of my reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

Jim Pappas This movie had the most hysterically funny ending I have seen, ever, in a movie. Deadly serious up to the end, what happens is a benchmark for, and a lesson on how to create something that defines the attributes of cleverness. And that cleverness is found within this film by the to-the-guts hysteria delivered in the end. The title, "Traitor," refers to the Don Cheadle character who is an American Muslim. He is also part of a network of Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists.He becomes the key figure in a plot to make simultaneous attacks within U.S. soil, to be carried out by people recruited years earlier. These people are "sleepers," who appear to be average American citizens.Much of the story shown takes place inside jails and detention facilities where we meet people who are terrorists, as we like to think of them. I think there is some even-handedness shown by the directors approach to when we see depictions of groups of Muslim prisoners on the screen. They aren't all terrorists, actually, and it is true that the vast majority of them, both inside and outside the prisons, are not. But like everywhere, bad apples always spoil their bunches, and I believe I gained a perspective I might not have now, had I not seen this movie.