Rendition
The movie follows a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.
29 September 1976, California, USA
25 June 1958, Givatayim, Israel
9 January 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
June 10, 2010
Designed to make us feel like we've just witnessed a powerful experience. The reality of the film is that it's nothing but a shallow and underdeveloped position paper.
July 31, 2008
Rather then telling a story with characters growing and exploring the politics of the world around them, they simply take up the roles of well-dictated automatons.
October 19, 2007
That it's embarrassingly plausible, that it depicts things that have happened and that are probably still happening, is enough to make Americans sick to their stomach.
May 01, 2008
But Rendition, in the end, is a Lifetime movie with pretensions toward being a political thriller. (They could even call it YOU HAVE MY HUSBAND! since Witherspoon shrieks that at Streep in a ludicrous scene.)
October 19, 2007
It's one thing for a thriller to be timely, quite another for it to function as Rendition does, a gripping piece of entertainment with a clear head on its shoulders.
October 20, 2007
If these new, allegedly topical movies are to make us feel anything -- to move us toward any action or even just toward any fresh realization -- they need to at least seem alive on the screen, instead of just courting our polite, measured applause.
October 19, 2007
Rendition, while engrossing, does not grab us as it should.
October 19, 2007
What finally gives Rendition its headlong narrative momentum is the sense that we're rarely certain what argument the filmmakers are endorsing.
August 26, 2008
Rendition features decent performances by all its actors, although few are given any chance to shine.
October 22, 2007
I don't fault Rendition for its liberal politics. I fault it for hammering home those politics in such pounding, slanted fashion.
June 06, 2008
The film unfolds brilliantly and methodically, as director Gavid Hood's vivid characters are unwittingly drawn together.
