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DVD : RenditionIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Omar Metwally directed by: Gavin Hood  Amazon.com's Price: $14.98 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Rendition EAN: 0794043112928 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 19, 2008 Running Time: 122 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Sales Rank: 5810 MPN: TRNDN11292D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep star in this nail- biting thriller about a man who mysteriously disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington DC and the government conspiracy put in place to cover it up. Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Our dark historyRendition is very well done. It left me speechless and exhausted at the end. This movie is an indictment on the outgoing Bush administration and where our country as descended in human and civil rights. Rating:  - Torture: American StyleFilms that incorporate a solid political message along with outstanding performances are few and far between. The problem is incorporating the message without ramming it down the audience's throat. Or not losing the audience in a quagmire of politicalese. Syriana suffered from the latter, while this one suffered only slightly under the strain of throat ramming and some poor character development (or minimal screen time). The film's premise is based on the U.S. legal maneuver known as ... Read More Rating: - Extraordinary RenditionShadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake "I fear you speak upon the rack, where men enforced do speak anything." That's a line from Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and it's also a key theme in RENDITION, a disturbing, yet very good film. Omar Metwally plays an Egyptian citizen, a successful chemical engineer who has lived in the United States since he was 14-years old. He's married to Reese Witherspoon, has a young son and another child on the ... Read More Rating: - A study in unreasonable tortureI like films that question the methods our present administration is involved, and this film does that. Well acted by all, including a caustic Senator enacted very well by Meryl Streep. The film raises the question of how far can we go in the detaining of a person we suspect to be a terrorist and the methods of what constitues "torture". I think the only people who would object to this film would be the conservative right. Rating: - A serious film about a serious topic that will make you cringeThis 2007 film is scary. That's because the theme is about the practice of interrogating suspected terrorists in a foreign country where laws against torture do not apply. This practice is called rendition and this film makes it real. It's hard to watch. The film opens in an American middle class suburb. Reese Witherspoon is playing with her small son when they get a phone call from her husband, Omar Metwally, an Egyptian citizen who has lived in America for 20 years. He tells his ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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