This film was a take on the original. There are several stories going on here. One includes a Chechyen illegal immigrant taxi driver who is awaiting the arrival of his wife and daughter aboard an illegal ship. When the ship sinks with all the illegals on board, he is determined to learn the truth about the events. The second is a young man who has failed in real estate but takes over his father's clothing business with some shady ties to Ronny Chow. He suddenly realizes that his father was involved in transporting illegal immigrants. The third is a DEA agent with a devoted loving wife and son who just moved to Seattle. All of this takes place in Seattle. Anyway, he goes AWOL during his time in Afghanistan and there's more. Anyway, Mary McCormack delivered a great performance as the wife, Carol McKay. The other cast members are also quite good especially the Chechyen man. The film is weak in it's explanation of what actually happened to make it believable.

Traffic looks at the issue of smuggling in drugs, people and of course weapons of mass destruction. It ties the issues in distant lands, the war terrorism to things such as your children and your home.Unfortunately it does it with that sort of 1980s cop show drama feel, though taking itself far more seriously. What is more, the simplistic anti-drug and anti-terrorism messages are not that interesting.All in all, it is an OK series, it is well made. The plot may be cheap, but the plot twists are enough to keep it going.What is more, the acting is superb and the realism of characters lifts this out of morass.

I can say, without exaggerating, that this is the best miniseries I have ever seen.And I was really surprised. Traffic, has the one ingredient I have found to be common to all excellent movies: it starts quite simple, and then, gradually, gets better and better and better and better.Third part has such a suspense and thrill, that I might not be able to recall five other films that even it.Resuming:A must see. It's the first time I comment on a miniseries, and this one has the height of great films.

PLEASE!!! Is it not possible to make a show anymore that does NOT have the "amateur" camera movement. In my heart, I KNOW the anti-jiggle technology built into cameras now would enable a 5 year old to shoot steady shots.They probably offer "Jiggly Camera 101" in film school now.And why, please why, do we need 7-10 different camera shots of someone's face in rapid succession for a scene in which 1 or 2 would do nicely? Editor/splicers need the work, I guess.I did not care for the movie, so I expected just about what I got from the mini series. Very little.Glad they are repeating Dennis Miller's new show, which is running against this. Wifey wanted Traffic. She pays the bill, so guess what we watched.