rms125a Whiny political agitprop. Some intense scenes of a man being tortured in Egypt. Jake Gyllenhaal is good in his role but, overall, everyone else is really bad. Meryl Streep is the necessary Republican neocon baddie. Peter Sarsgaard is an earnest but conflicted congressional staffer with a personal connection to the American citizen wife (Reese Witherspoon) of an Egyptian national, who just happens to be the subject of the rendition for which the film is named. Alan Arkin is Sarsgaard's boss, a crusty oldtimer who doesn't want to get involved. Tiresome tropes used in service of political propaganda about issue that most people don't know much about and Hollywood should NOT be the first place they get educated.

Alenbalz Great movie, that highlights how a government sacrifices civil rights and personal freedom in the name of actually protecting them. There was a time before 9/11 (when the death penalty was quite common for some crimes), the legal system of the Western civilized world was based on the premise {it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to kill/hang one innocent man}. Today, After 9/11, that appears to have changed to {it is better to kill/sacrifice ten innocent men than to let one terrorist go free} : at least that's what this movie is highlighting. The take home message is, that while the constitution of the U.S.A. guarantee's it's citizens certain rights and freedoms (on paper), they can be taken away at any time by that same Govt. if they believe you are a national security threat; and that belief doesn't have to be supported by any real or hard evidence. Perhaps in time History will record this as the 21st Century's evolution of the Spanish Inquisition and Witch Hunts a few centuries ago. A powerful movie that shows how just how delicate an individual's security and safety really is, when the State perceives you as a threat, and no matter how hard you try to convince it otherwise, you'll be tortured until you confess to what the State wants to hear, so that it can justify your purging.

moshirhemdan The film storyline is good but as an Egyptian I was disappointed by the film makers!! the Egyptian accent is such a miss!! it was weird mix of Arabic formal language,Syrian and Egyptian slang!! why didn't they pay much attention to those details?! not all Arab countries speak same slang and uses the same accent. some other turn offs are the Arabic stereo typing: why can't they make a movie about Arabic country without a belly dancing scene.. just wondering ?! On one scene El-Ibrahimi's wife asks his mother : "Does he even attend a mosque?" really?? so it is a bad thing for a Muslim man to practice his religion by paying at the mosque?!

jedimasterwampa Totally agree with some of the reviews for this movie. about an hour into it I just asked myself "what am i watching?" i didn't continue the movie after that i was so bored and the dialog was so slow and had no meaning to it that i just couldn't watch any longer. i read the spoilers reviews and i am glad i didn't watch the rest of it. most of the acting was really dull too everyone trying to be dead eyed and serious especially the main character and it just seemed out of place with no real back round other than hes an analyst. also i did not really care what happened to the prisoner character even though he has a family because they never showed him with his family. so in all i just did not feel this movie other than being super bored.