Synopsis
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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Cast
- Reese WitherspoonIsabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
- Jake GyllenhaalDouglas Freeman
- Meryl StreepCorrine Whitman
- Alan ArkinSenator Hawkins
- Peter SarsgaardAlan Smith
- Omar MetwallyAnwar El-Ibrahimi
- Igal NaorAbasi Fawal
- Hadar Ratzon RotemSafiya
- J.K. SimmonsLee Mayer
- Simon AbkarianSaid Abdel Aziz
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
Disappointingly dull given the explosive subject matter, this at least attempts to get a message into the mainstream. An extra star for effort rather than execution. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The jumping around is as deft as a hippo in a tutu, and the director, Gavin Hood, never finds a rhythm. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Rendition certainly makes the case that torture, whatever name it goes under, is indefensible, yet one can agree with that view entirely and still feel that the movie is just a borderline exploitation of what anyone who reads the papers already knows. - 50
Variety
By underplaying the melodrama in the presumed hope of seeming subtle when Kelley Sane’s script is so baldly melodramatic, the “Tsotsi” helmer drains the life out of an obviously explosive subject. - 50
ReelViews
The film's disappointingly black-and-white approach robs characters and situations of badly needed ambiguity. - 50
Village Voice
Unlike Hood's far more persuasive gangster picture "Tsotsi," Rendition feels generic and lackluster. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Intelligent and well-meaning, Rendition is nevertheless an oversimplified and uneven attempt to arouse righteous indignation among its viewers. - 50
Chicago Tribune
In Rendition Gyllenhaal is supposed to be the smartest one in the room, yet he’s essentially just a good-looking plodder. And despite its whirligig story machinations, so is Rendition.
