{"id":185489,"date":"2021-02-22T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-crisis-review-opioids-get-the-traffic-treatment\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:00:04","slug":"watch-crisis-review-opioids-get-the-traffic-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-crisis-review-opioids-get-the-traffic-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Crisis&#8217; Review: Opioids Get the &#8216;Traffic&#8217; Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f914fc7c73\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f914fc7c73\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-crisis-review-opioids-get-the-traffic-treatment\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Crisis_Review_Opioids_Get_the_%E2%80%98Traffic_Treatment%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Crisis&#8217; Review: Opioids Get the &#8216;Traffic&#8217; Treatment&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-crisis-review-opioids-get-the-traffic-treatment\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Crisis_Review_Opioids_Get_the_%E2%80%98Traffic_Treatment%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Crisis&#8217; Review: Opioids Get the &#8216;Traffic&#8217; Treatment&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Crisis_Review_Opioids_Get_the_%E2%80%98Traffic_Treatment%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Crisis&#8217; Review: Opioids Get the &#8216;Traffic&#8217; Treatment&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Crisis_Review_Opioids_Get_the_%E2%80%98Traffic_Treatment%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Crisis&#8217; Review: Opioids Get the &#8216;Traffic&#8217; Treatment&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Some problems can\u2019t be solved with a pre<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion. Attempting to do for the opioid epidemic what \u201cTraffic\u201d did for the war on drugs, Nicholas Jarecki\u2019s \u201cCrisis\u201d sets up three separate storylines \u2014 a grieving mama with a grudge (Evangeline Lilly), an undercover DEA operative with an imminent bust (Armie Hammer) and a compromised research professor with a con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> (Gary Oldman) \u2014 and proceeds to braid them together for maximum melodrama.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s compelling, relevant filmmaking designed to cover all aspects of this ever-escalating national-health issue, thrown for a loop by an unforeseen crisis of its own: the very public scrutiny of Armie Hammer\u2019s own alleged addictions (which, ironically, could actually boost the film\u2019s profile). Dense but never difficult to follow, \u201cCrisis\u201d is crammed with screaming matches, shootouts and plenty of those bleary-eyed scenes where desperate relatives try to process the impact of drug abuse on their loved ones \u2014 which is to say, there\u2019s no shortage of engaging and\/or wrenching material here.<\/p>\n<p>But like Jarecki\u2019s 2012 debut, financial-crisis morality play \u201cArbitrage,\u201d one gets the impression that the helmer has bitten off more than he can chew as he strains to compress a thorny subject into a tight two-hour package. It\u2019s ambitious, sure, but more focused indies (such as \u201cLittle Woods\u201d and \u201cBeneath the Harvest Sky\u201d) have taken a relatively nuanced approach in recent years, whereas \u201cCrisis\u201d deals in broader stereotypes. Remember, \u201cTraffic\u201d first existed in mini<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> form, and it took a master, Steven Soderbergh, experimenting with sophisticated cross-cutting (by Y2K standards, at least, since the film\u2019s color-coded strategy can feel too hand-hold-y today), to reduce all those threads to a coherent 147 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A limited series might have been the way to go with \u201cCrisis\u201d as well, since the feature treatment deals primarily in plot, leaving limited room for the characters to develop beyond the clich\u00e9s that define them. Even so, a talented yet over-amped cast does its best to flesh out the stereotypes it has been handed, and Jarecki shows a kind of confidence behind the camera that masks the film\u2019s more generic aspects. (Lilly\u2019s Claire Reimann, for example, is presented as an ex-oxycodone addict, whose internal struggle is too easily flushed down the sink and forgotten.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrisis\u201d opens with an action scene, as a camouflaged drug runner is ambushed by police in a helicopter and on snowmobiles while trying to smuggle fentanyl across an unpatrolled stretch of the Canadian border. Jarecki keeps the momentum going \u2014 sometimes simply by using dynamic camera moves to energize otherwise static situations \u2014 throughout the first act as he introduces his three lead characters.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Detroit, after the arrest, Jake Kelly (Hammer) does damage control with a pair of \u201cArmenian power gangsters,\u201d then risks blowing his cover to visit his strung-out sister (Lily-Rose Depp) in rehab. Across town, Claire copes with her recovery in a survivors\u2019 meeting, only to realize how close to home the illicit opioid trade hits when her son goes missing. And in the halls of a private university, charismatic professor Dr. Tyrone Brower (Oldman) impresses in the classroom, but may have compromised his integrity in the lab by conducting drug trials directly sponsored by a monster pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n<p>When Tyrone\u2019s assistants discover that a new wonder drug, Klaralon, is three times more addictive than other painkillers on mice (and fatal in excess), he\u2019s torn by what to do with the findings. The movie sends a smarmy Big Pharma exec (Luke Evans) to make the conflict of interest even more generous (he offers Tyrone\u2019s department a $780,000 grant in exchange for enhanced nondisclosure terms). Such shady practices do happen, of course, but Jarecki tends to oversimplify, putting ultimatums in characters\u2019 mouths that would be more menacing if implied.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not so different for the trailer-length explanation Hammer\u2019s character gives his supervisor (Michelle Rodriguez) of the \u201cpill mills\u201d Jake has established, leaning on corrupt doctors to write unnecessary prescriptions to homeless recruits. (Jarecki, who plays Jake\u2019s DEA partner, sets the montage to the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cCan\u2019t You Hear Me Knocking\u201d for a Scorsese-like kick.) Such scams are troubling, but not especially creative to anyone who\u2019s been paying attention to the escalation of the opioid crisis in recent years \u2014 a situation whereby painkillers have themselves become killers, and enforcement is complicated by the institutional deep pockets that profit from both the illicit and intended use of their inventions.<\/p>\n<p>Here, it\u2019s hard not to compare \u201cCrisis\u201d with older brother Eugene Jarecki\u2019s 2012 documentary \u201cThe House I Live In,\u201d a hard-hitting look at flaws in America\u2019s drug policy. That film touched on the way enforcement differs depending on whether the addicts are Black or white, grappling with the complexity of many of the issues that \u201cCrisis\u201d presents as clear-cut moral dilemmas. Sure, it can be goose bump-inducing to hear Oldman sputter, \u201cThis is the biggest public health crisis since tobacco. We can\u2019t just turn a blind eye!\u201d to his school\u2019s donation-grateful dean (Greg Kinnear). But a development involving an old sexual harassment charge dug up to discredit Tyrone feels reductive, as do many of the movie\u2019s side intrigues: a dangerous list of police informants, a regulatory whistleblower service at FDA headquarters, the fate of Claire\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>Jarecki\u2019s tendency to streamline subplots doesn\u2019t make \u201cCrisis\u201d any less engaging, giving everything a pop, Michael Crichton-esque feel. Back in the \u201990s, the best-selling author built his career around boiling down big ideas into terse, two-page chapters, setting up mini-cliffhangers in a way that kept readers pawing forward. The structure of \u201cCrisis\u201d feels similar, as Jarecki gives brisk updates on each of the three characters while alternating quickly enough between strands that audiences can\u2019t quite get ahead of the predictable plot. It\u2019s an attention-deficit technique that speaks to another Big Pharma problem (the over-prescription of drugs like Ritalin), but that\u2019s an issue for another movie.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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