Rendition

Rendition
by Gavin Hood

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Actor: Alan Arkin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Yigal Naor
Director: Gavin Hood
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe
Composer: Mark Kilian
Composer: Paul Hepker
Editor: Megan Gill
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video

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Movie Review: "The United States does not torture, Douglas!"
Summary: 5 Stars

Rendition sheds light on post-9/11 practices aimed at combating terrorism. An Egyptian-born man is apprehended as he returns to the United States following a trip to South Africa only to be transported to a secret location in Egypt where the torture begins. The film deals with several stories as they unfold simantineously and by the end of the movie everything falls into place.
Although Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Omar Metwally and most of the rest of the cast carry out their performances well, Yigal Naor primarily and Peter Saarsgard secondarily steal the show. On the down side, I am not a fan of Jake Gyllenhaal and subsequently I did not appreciate his being in this movie.
The plot, the setting, the dialogues, and the music, are all very good.
In short, Rendition is a movie definitely worth watching if you are in the mood for a good political thriller. 4.5 Stars

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Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep star in this nail- biting thriller about a man who mysteriously disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington DC and the government conspiracy put in place to cover it up.

Roger Ebert called it "perfect," and certainly the timing couldn't have been much better: Rendition was released just as the U.S. was debating anew the issue of "extraordinary rendition," a policy (begun under the Clinton administration, accelerated after September 11, 2001) of handing over suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Alas, the movie only rarely fills in the outlines of a prototypical "issue movie," the kind of thing peopled by cardboard characters tracing the patterns of an important, indeed urgent, subject. The plot kicks into gear when an Egyptian-born man (Omar Metwally) is sent to an unnamed North African country where torture is practiced, with the CIA in approval. The film takes a Crash dive through how this affects various people: his pregnant American wife (Reese Witherspoon), the reluctant CIA agent (Jake Gyllenhaal) on the scene, a severe interrogator (Yigal Naor), all the way up to a U.S. terrorism honcho (Meryl Streep) willing to turn a blind eye to the unpleasantness if it stops a terrorist attack. Things spark briefly when Witherspoon enlists an old beau (Peter Sarsgaard) to plead her case with his boss, a U.S. Senator (Alan Arkin), but for the most part director Gavin Hood (Totsi) can't find a way to color in these line drawings, despite the formidable actors doing spirited work. The issue is fully and lucidly explained, but the movie doesn't come alive. --Robert Horton

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