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List Price: $28.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $8.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 19 October, 2007 DVD Release : 19 February, 2008 |
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Rendition description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | UNBELIEVABLE! Leftist aspects of plot, though. |
| This movie was out of this world--out of our world, that is. If you want to see what some of these more-violent Middle Eastern cultures are, here you go. It doesn't seem believable that other cultures could be like that, but that's how they really are. This is the first movie I've ever seen that depicts it the way it really is.
Keep in mind that this movie gets as far left as it can with all of the usual far left perceptions. They show torture in it and all of that stuff. Everyone sane realizes that the US doesn't torture people and that only 3 of all of the terrorists have been water-boarded, but that's how the movie perceives it. Also, they never show what the result was of the guy they catch. They never show him being guilty or innocent, which is a real cliffhanger at the end of the movie. So, if you want to know about extreme, Middle Eastern culture and like movies where all of the characters are intertwined, I definitely recommend it. Like I said, the plot runs a little left, but it's still a very watchable movie. Because of the far-left agenda, I give it 4 stars instead of 5. |
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