I had not seen Traffic until recently, almost a year and a half after it's release, and I truthfully can not 
see why there was so much hype. The film encompasses four different stories, and they are all somehow
connected.  Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro) is a Mexican cop. He only makes a meager three hundred 
a month, but he seems to enjoy his work. Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and and Ray Castro (Luiz Guzman)
are government officials trying to bring down a drug cartel in Mexico. Caroline Wakefield (Erika Christensen) 
is the Judge's  daughter Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), which by the way is horribly cliched.  Helena 
Ayala (Catherine Zeta Jones, my future wife) is the wife of a major drug distributor, and does not know it.
The stories all deal with the drug trafficking that goes on from Mexico to the United States. 

The problem with the movie is that it never really finds out where it is going, even though it would like
you to think it is.  Michael Douglas stinks up the screen as per usual, with previously mentioned cliched
scenes with his daughter. Basically the Judges daughter is a top of her class model citizen who shoots 
up heroin on weekends with her spoiled rotten prep school friends. Horribly blown out of proportion, it 
may have ruined the movie. Quaid does what he's supposed to do, sit there and read out his lines without 
much conviction. I did however enjoy Benicio Del Toro's performance, as I usually do. Luiz Guzman also puts
in a more than cliched sidekick part. I don't know. The editing was very good, and it looks really nice, but that
is about it. The ending is just inconsequential; you leave not really caring for any of the characters. That is,
except for my future wife, Catherine Zeta Jones.