Customer Reviews
A remix too far... - By: T. Patmore, 10 Feb 2008 
There are many reviews of the film, although few give any mention of this being a remix version. As someone who has seen both, I'd have to say that the remixed version adds very little & seems to just be a re-editing of the original with a different intro & a few different songs (e.g. 'Weak become Heroes' at the end)
Of course, being Human Traffic, it's well worth another watch (hence the four stars) & the extras are worth at least one viewing. However, there is no way this remix improves on it as all it adds of value is some deleted scenes which were rubbish anyway.
So, if you have seen Human Traffic + loved it, then this is worth a go. However, if you're just curious then try 'Go' 'Late Night shopping' or buy
the soundtrack if you haven't got it already...
Awesome take on dance culture - By: Anatole Branch, 22 Dec 2007 
I completely loved this film, saw it again after a couple of years & think it gets better with age. Brilliantly shot, funny, wacky, witty, nuts dialog, good & bad of drugs, great damn music had me dancingin my chair...great take on post modern youth life, struggles, craziness, fun, drugs, music, connections, alienation, philosophy & even some male female bonding!! Funny film, wish I was less squarein those days & did more of this stuff ... a inside view on some of the best of UK (welsh) youth clubbing reality.
Very dated these days - By: Turner, 22 Oct 2007 
I can remember watching this when it first came out & liking it what with being a weekender myself, prone to large nights out, debauched behaviour & a good times mission with like minded friends.
Fast forward 8 years & Human Traffic is shown on Film 4. Settle down to watch it & start to cringe with embarrassment at how dated it now looks & feels. The dialogue is clunky & annoying for starters. Does, or did, anyone really talk like that? Shouting clubbing cliche words down the phone at your mates, rambling on like a coke head even before you've hit the night out. Living for the weekend was & still is a great British pastime but thank God I don't have mates like this lot. Having a pre-club warm up beerin your local & talking about music you hate as part of some bonding session, oh deary me! It just comes across as a bad attempt at being cool. Trying far too hard to capture the incredible highs of a brief periodin time but at least it was brave enough to show the inevitable downside as well.
Suffice to say I didn't watch the whole film again. Best left on the shelf along with the likes of This Life & other 'cool Britania' relics.
Watching something like the clubbing episodein Spaced is far more entertaining & real, & a lot more funnier.
JUSTIN KARRIGAN HITS GOLD - By: stuart, 15 Oct 2007 Justin Kerrigan - this time you've really done it. Human Traffic is going to upset the majority of film critics who will view the lack of plot, the drug induced dialogue & the futile outlook on Nineties Youth culture as a miserable & desperate view of how weekends are spent by ravers & clubheads across the UK. Moreover, they will spot camera work borrowed from Boogie Nights & even try & associate the whole film with 'Trainspotting' theme (because, lets face it, a Scottish Heroin addict trying to clean up his act & a Welsh clubber looking for a good time with his mates is pretty much the same thing, right?)
Well wrong. Human Traffic has landed - along with one & a half quality hours of clubs, drugs, pubs & parties - & its time to leave behind your preconceptions of what a film should be like (where's the plot? I want a plot!) & instead delve into the lives of Jip (John Simm) & his mates, Nina (Nicola Reynolds), Koop (Shaun Parkes), Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington) & Moff (Danny Dyer). There's nothing special about these five friends; they're just hanging out together & showing you the way they lead their lives. They are not Burger King. They certainly don't do it your way. And you don't like it - well, tough.
Because essentially this period piece has captured everything that Nineties youth culture is revolving around. There are no clear solutions,in fact very few problemsin the first place. At the end of the day, what Jip & his friends are doing is living & who are we to know or comment on anything different? They drink, smoke dope, pop pills & party; they know the risks & they're prepared to take them & moralists will just have to sit back & (try to) enjoy the ride.
The sound track is terrific & accompanies the highs & lows of the 48 hour weekend & the events that take placein it. But within this, what first appears to be social unity, we see traces of individual isolation that are easy to bypassin a culture of hedonism. Jips paranoia of sex, Koops jealous possession of Nina & Moff as his drug habit digs him deeper into his own hole & further away from his family, asks the question 'are things really this good?' However they will not be exaggerated to the extent that they are conspicuous, giving the film a controversial stance on drugs & the rolein social integration. Kerrigan is pulling no punches. And why should he? This isn't GO! or any other such American rave film with clear cut margins & please-the-crowd conclusions - it is one that forces us to question whilst at the same time enjoy the at times hilarious, touching & other times exciting events of 48 hours with a group of five 'friends'.
And for the die-hard British youth among you, this might not be reality - but it's a bloody brave effort at depicting it.
Great - By: Mr. D. L. Selwood, 07 Oct 2007 Somewhere between the cheery comedic teen angst of a Brat Pack movie & the stylishly dingy, drug-ravaged night life of "Trainspotting," you'll find the fresh-faced, fun-loving, Ecstasy-dropping, Welsh weekend warriors that populate the party-hardy world of "Human Traffic."
A capricious & energetic, rave-flavored tour through a bouncy Friday-Saturday-Sunday of dance & romancein the lives of five club-hopping pals on the cusp of their 20s, this lightweight snapshot of edgy Y2K youth culture has nothing new to say about sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll -- but it says that nothing with irresistibly enthusiastic effervescence.
The story is narrated with hyperactive chirp by Jip (John Simms), a soft-featured Tim Roth look-alike who blows off steam from his weekdaysin retail hell by getting squiffy with his mates & dancing the night away.
His entourage includes his best gal pal Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington), a tangy "full-on club minx" with a mane of out-of-control curls & a secret jones for Jip; aimless stoner Moff (Danny Dyer); African-Anglo Koop (Shaun Parkes), a spastic record store DJ with a jealous streak; & Koop's flirty girlfriend Nina (Nicola Reynolds), who bolts from her McJobin a fantasy-embellished early scene that sets the movie's anti-establishment mood.
Written & directed by 25-year-old Justin Kerrigan, a recent Welsh film school grad who has won a handful of festival awards, "Human Traffic" accompanies this group from their day jobs (hate them!) through their club-hopping nightsin a style that apes from a dozen sources (notably, "Trainspotting" & early MTV) without feeling unoriginal.
The plot is simple stuff -- each character has some banal comedic conflict (Jip is experiencing sexual performance problems, Lulu is convinced she's a schmuck magnet, etc.) easily resolved through their memorable weekend of youthful excess (ecstasy is unabashedly endorsed). But that hardly matters because "Human Traffic" isn't about story, per se. It's about capturing that all-too-brief moment of devil-may-care lifestyle that people remember forever as the best time of their lives.
