Rendition

Name: Rendition
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Released: October 19, 2007
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon

2007

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New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 19, 2007 | R

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon

Summary: When an Egyptian-born chemical engineer disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington, his American wife desperately tries to track him down. Meanwhile, a CIA analyst at a secret detention facility outside the U.S. is forced to question his assignment as he becomes party to the man's unorthodox interrogation. (New Line Cinema)

Director: Gavin Hood

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, War

Rating: R

Runtime: 122 min

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Roger Ebert

Rendition 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." Read full review

Jack Mathews

There are some problems with the pacing, but this topical thriller about CIA-sanctioned torture is one of the most important "message" movies of the year. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

The movie Rendition asks, admittedly in a one-sided way, whether the ends justify these means. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Rendition tackles the concern in a heavy-handed thriller with simplistic characters and manipulative story lines. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Intelligent and well-meaning, Rendition is nevertheless an oversimplified and uneven attempt to arouse righteous indignation among its viewers. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Forget the thin characters and showoffy temporal structure. Rendition's worst flaw is its political deck-stacking. Read full review

Shawn Levy

Overheated claptrap that takes an issue of vital national importance and turns it into an inept cartoon that emboldens the worst instincts in our national character. Read full review

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JimS.

Sep 21, 2008

Nothing wrong with it... did what it wanted to do adequately, and it was a good point making exercise. Would like to know their sources for the plot.

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JohnD.

Oct 23, 2007

Great movie.

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SamS.

May 4, 2008

I can only think most of the reviewers saw a different film. Not much that is hard to believe - Washington cynicism, flagrantly illegal detention, torture, - does the ends justify the means? This stuff happens only worse insofar as these detentions are for months not the week depicted in I can only think most of the reviewers saw a different film. Not much that is hard to believe - Washington cynicism, flagrantly illegal detention, torture, - does the ends justify the means? This stuff happens only worse insofar as these detentions are for months not the week depicted in the movie. Brutal thought it was it did display both sides of the debate, but ultimately the corrupting and corrosive nature of excessive power are unmistakable. The movie is well acted, atmospheric,and tense. One might argue there is a twist that is unnecessarily clever, but it does increase the tension. Reese Witherspoon is the least convincing element, somewhat unidimensional, but the movie has a lot to get through. This is a movie about a complex problem, which it necessarily oversimplifies, but still a topic that shames every American. A good movie.… Expand

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JayH.

Feb 14, 2008

Well made thriller but not completely convincing. Good performance from Meryl Streep, Jake Gyllenhaal is miscast but he tries. Compelling and always watchable.

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beingryanjude

Aug 28, 2014

A powerful, political thriller made even more convincing with it's well-teamed cast. The subject matter is contemporary and interesting. Rendition is above these mixed reviews.

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kieron

Oct 28, 2007

Never really got going...given the subject matter could have been so much better

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[Anonymous]

Oct 22, 2007

This is a disappointment to say the least...its odd propaganda that seems sort of puzzling at what they were thinking by this.

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