Rendition Trailer [2007]

"moving and thought-provoking", 6 November 2007


Imagine you have just been on a plane for 18 hours. You have been on a business trip to South Africa. You are a high-paid professional. You've lived in the US for 20 years. You are in your thirties, you have a wife a little boy and another baby on the way. One thing, even though you have a green card, you are still Egyptian. On transit you are asked to come with 2 security guards, next thing you know you are overpowered, hooded and chained and after a brief ( but still reasonably civil) interrogation you are to be rendered! This is what happens to Anwar el Ibrahimi at the beginning of the movie. His is a story of pain and ( literally )torture. It's one of several story lines. One follows his wife's attempts to get more information. One follows the (cold) bureaucrats behind the rendition. Another story deals with the family of the man who leads the interrogation of Anwar el Ibrahimi. There are some other stories too and by the end they all neatly come together. Though the more famous actors like Reese Witherspoon ( as the distraught pregnant wife ) Jake Gyllenhaal ( as the CIA rookie forced to watch the interrogation in Northern Africa) and Meryl Streep ( as CIA hotshot Corine Whitman) it is really the more unknown actors that carry the story and give it it's heart. For me the actor playing the unfortunate Mr El Ibrahimi ( Omar Metwally ) was the heart and soul of this movie. His portrayal of a man in distress was shockingly well done. It's almost as if he was being tortured for real! Also Israeli actor Yigal Naor was very impressive as the part worried family-man and part extremely cruel chief of torture. Hard to watch and not exactly fun, but still very worthwhile.

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[darthkantus]

@Packerd01

the guys in Abu Graib were charged because the press leaked the photos and the videos! but if the interrogations are normal, and everything is according to the law, why they don't question the POW's in the united states? under american law? prosecuting them like a normal democracy does? why does the american administration needs to question them in Saudi Arabi, or in Pakistan? why does a mature democracy like America needs a concentration camp like Guantanamo?

[Packerd01]

@darthkantus In Guantanamo there were all islamist terrorists etc. What those prison staf had done in Abu Graib to these terrorists was wrong and they got prosecuted for that. If they hadden't been charged for that THEN you should had been worried. Be rational please. Interegations are normal.

[darthkantus]

@Packerd01

so Guantanamo is fiction right? CIA flights carrying POW's of Afghanistan and Iraq, to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan prison's to be interrogated properly, are also fiction? Abu Graib is definitely fiction (that i'm sure; you don't need to confirm it)

[Packerd01]

@darthkantus The movie is crap buddy, it's a pure lie anti war propaganda crap. What the movie shows is more a US under socialism/marxism/communism. No wonder everyone the majorty says that Hollywood has gone crap. Full of left wing garbage with left wing actors. Films still watchable are the ones from "Ridley Scott" for example. This movie is idiocy.

[darthkantus]

@Packerd01

i don't know if you noticed but the rendition represents everything but following the constitution.

[Packerd01]

@darthkantus Conservative/Libertarianism/pa­triotism and follow the constitution is what is important, not some lunatic liberal/communist/islamofacsis­t/socialist/marxist agenda.

[darthkantus]

@Packerd01

Dude this is a serious subject; but as they say: we only appreciate freedom when we don't have it anymore. maybe one day, when the chinese start doing those renditions to american citizens, and putting them on north korean camps to be tortured and killed, you will understand those left wing craps you mentioned (unless, of course, you are not human)

[darthkantus]

@DjordjeLFC

that's what you get - a retarded nation - when the only thing it's cherished is money

[Packerd01]

@DjordjeLFC Your prime minister sucks balls. Your country will be even in more deeper shit if they join the EU.

[Packerd01]

What a shit film. Pure liberal crap whore movie. Get lost you liberal-facsist pro islamofacsist hippie communist idiots. A good fucking reason why I don't go to the theaters anymore. 3 years ago was last time I went. It's a waste of money. Hollywood has become biased and left wing crap. You want to watch good movies? Watch the movies of "Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Clint Eastwood" and watch Al Pacino films too. Films need some tetestorone back like in the 80's and 90's. Steven Seagal etc.