Movie review: 'Traffik' cheapens a serious social issue

This film exploits the real and terrible problem of human trafficking for cheap thrills

13 May 2018 - 00:00 By tymon smith

Human trafficking is a real and terrible problem in the world and all right-thinking, morally accountable people agree that something needs to be done about it. But Deon Taylor's film Traffik is certainly not the way to deal with this serious social issue.
Taylor is a third-rate director of exploitation thriller/horrors that are this millennium's equivalent of the 20th century's drive-in films. 
Of course Taylor doesn't think of himself as third rate and neither does whoever is responsible for writing his bio on the Internet Movie Database (the prime suspect is the man himself).
The normally dry facts of birth, credits, marriage and so on are in Taylor's case replaced by a page-long essay of self-actualising nonsense, declaring him "an idea generator ... a self-taught creative genius . [whose] vision is iconic ... a force to be reckoned with in the conglomerate world of entertainment".
WATCH | The trailer for Traffik..

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