Traffic Stop
Traffic Stop
NR | 14 November 2017 (USA)
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Breaion King, a 26 year-old African-American school teacher from Austin, Texas - is pulled over for a routine traffic stop that escalates into a violent arrest. Dashcam clips intercut with verite scenes tell a story of racism in law enforcement through the eyes of one of its victims.

Reviews
ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!
Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
NickyCee I just saw the film. Most of the important things about this "documentary" have already been said. Biased isn't the word. It's just a one-side opinion piece. Now how about this idea? How about when you get pulled over by a cop, you fully understand that the cop has a chip on his shoulder. He is probably not smart enough to do much else in life and probably got beat up on the playground. Now it's HIS time to be in power. So with this in mind, how about this idea? How about you do everything the cop tells you to do exactly as he tells you to do it knowing that if you touch the chip on his shoulder, it will not go well for you. I knew this as a white suburban boy at 10 years old. I've been pulled over many times and so have my black friends. **They do as they are told and there is never a problem.**Bottom line: This lady brought 100% of these problems on herself. If she had done what she was told, she would be fine. I have zero idea how this lightweight opinion film was nominated for an Oscar.
jennrotman-504-89837 So a cop does a traffic stop, lady does not follow directions and fights them the whole time and we have a documentary about her? She was in the wrong and the officer was doing their job. This is trying to get people riled up about something that didn't happen in this case. And she needs to stop referring to herself in the 3rd person.
sean-48013 Any reasonable person knows the topic is a real issue. And there are moments where we get to see the perspective of both a cop and the driver without it being wrapped in all of the emotional overdrive and posturing that oozes out of the rest of the film. With a different case this same format might have worked really well. This specific traffic stop's footage doesn't tell the story that needs to be told. It might actually serve to convince people in the opposite direction. Instead I have to wonder if the production team watched the dash cam footage. Did they edit it in believing they knew what it portrayed? Or were they so blinded by passion for the topic that they felt Breaion's life story would cause us to excuse her choices?Either way, it's sloppy. Hopefully future filmmakers take more care to ensure the dashcam footage matches the story they build.
TitleNotKnown . The topic is so now. We can't let it slide when police get it wrong without remorse and without serious efforts to improve practices and help the communities it serves to heal. This film, however, will do little to move us down the track. In fact, it may hurt the cause.Breaion King gets pulled over for a traffic violation. Right out of the gate, she starts getting cute with the officer saying ridiculous things like (paraphrase), 'I'm already stopped so can you still pull me over?' SMH. He proceeds to respectfully ask her to get back in the car and hand him her license. She remains belligerent, combative and non-compliant until finally he is forced to go to the next level. No pun intended but that means 'force'. Everyone knows how situations like this go down but we're supposed to believe that she's naive and innocent. The best part is that while scenes from the police dash-cam of her continued bad behavior come in and out so do scenes where she makes claims for her intelligence. It almost makes me wonder if this situation/arrest was somewhat calculated on her part. I agree with another poster here, this film plays into the hands of certain folks who say that liberals in general are over politicizing identity politics. A better film might be one in which a split screen shows dash-cam footage of how an officer behaves under similar circumstances with a white suspect and with a black suspect. This film, at the very least, is lazy.