acebreaoeva
This movie has an amazing cast, but it absolutely wastes it. The movie was boring and not at all worth watching.
Alenbalz
Great movie, that highlights how a government sacrifices civil rights and personal freedom in the name of actually protecting them. There was a time before 9/11 (when the death penalty was quite common for some crimes), the legal system of the Western civilized world was based on the premise {it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to kill/hang one innocent man}. Today, After 9/11, that appears to have changed to {it is better to kill/sacrifice ten innocent men than to let one terrorist go free} : at least that's what this movie is highlighting. The take home message is, that while the constitution of the U.S.A. guarantee's it's citizens certain rights and freedoms (on paper), they can be taken away at any time by that same Govt. if they believe you are a national security threat; and that belief doesn't have to be supported by any real or hard evidence. Perhaps in time History will record this as the 21st Century's evolution of the Spanish Inquisition and Witch Hunts a few centuries ago. A powerful movie that shows how just how delicate an individual's security and safety really is, when the State perceives you as a threat, and no matter how hard you try to convince it otherwise, you'll be tortured until you confess to what the State wants to hear, so that it can justify your purging.
Thomas Kenyon
Rendition opened really gets you thinking of what actually happened behind closed doors to all enemies of the U.S. Great movie! A must see for anyone, especially if you have an interest for history (world). I will continue to watch over and over. Actors that were selected did a phenomenal job portraying some difficult characters.I liked it because it shows a different viewpoint from a different point of the world along with the U.S. viewpoint. The title portrays how one issue can effect so many other people. Also shows a series of chain-reaction events having everlasting effects on each of the people and their families involved.Good Watch overall!
SnoopyStyle
CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) barely survives a suicide terrorist attack in North Africa. Meanwhile, Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) is an Egyptian taken by the authorities in Washington airport and transported to the middle east. His pregnant wife Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) isn't notified and she seeks help from an old acquaintance Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard) who is an assistant to Senator Hawkins (Alan Arkin). Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep) is the boss who refuses to back down.The evidence against Anwar is several phone calls from a known terrorists. It seems that the question about the phone calls could be more easily answered with telephone records. It just seems like they didn't follow the clues correctly. It's very frustrating to be told of these phone calls, and yet there seems to be so little information about them in the movie. And the information in the movie seems so scant and unreliable. In the end, I can't tell what if anything he's done or not done.There are some big time actors in some juicy roles. The juiciest has to be Reese Witherspoon's role. She has the big time confrontation with Meryl Streep. But the Arab story is just as good with an interesting twist in the end.I just wish the phone calls evidence was more clear one way or another. Whether the audience accepts his guilt or innocence is of the utmost importance. And it needed to be settled more concretely.
AD
