
After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country, an investigation leads to an Egyptian who has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home. The U.S. sends him to the country where the incident occurs for interrogation, which includes torture. An American C.I.A. operative observes the interrogation and is at odds whether to keep it going or to stop it. In the meantime, the man'... (Full plot summary below)
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After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country, an investigation leads to an Egyptian who has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home. The U.S. sends him to the country where the incident occurs for interrogation, which includes torture. An American C.I.A. operative observes the interrogation and is at odds whether to keep it going or to stop it. In the meantime, the man's wife raises hell to find him, but the person behind this refuses to help or give her any information.
Leave your thoughts about Rendition.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertRendition is valuable and rare. As I wrote from Toronto: "It is a movie about the theory and practice of two things: torture and personal responsibility. And it is wise about what is right, and what is wrong." |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanRendition is an important film. Art, by definition, is supposed to provoke, to spur emotions, to enlighten. On those counts, this movie scores a bull's-eye. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasThe script isn't particularly impressive and with so many films exploring similar material, the film seems predictable and redundant. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Sukhdev SandhuThe audience is unduly flattered, never once forced to question its own complicity in allowing this foul and almost always counter-productive flouting of international law to flourish. |
| Contra Costa TimesMary F. PolsStreep's skill is, as always, breathtaking. |
| Atlantic City WeeklyLori HoffmanRendition gives its take on this practice with enough complexity to keep us engaged - and on the fence about how far our nation should go ... |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTaut, powerfully acted political thriller. |
| Paste MagazineSean GandertRather 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. |
| NewsdayJan StuartReduces issues of burning domestic urgency to a rubble of burnt melodrama. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA maddening film, maddening in a good way, but maddening nonetheless. |