![]() Renditions have been known to work, but have also been known to produce false information from innocent prisoners. The film does not intend to preach, but rather to question and inform the audience on a topic that does not often have a human face put on it. Metwally's performance as the tortured prisoner is Oscar-worthy. The film may be described by some as a political piece, but is ultimately an emotional one. ![]() Some, like the CIA analyst (Gyllenhaal), are visibly shaken and horrified by the methods exercised, while others, the stern Senator (Streep) and foreign interrogator (Yigal Naor), see it as necessary and effective. ![]() This film follows the emotional plights of the torture victim (Metwally), and those involved in obtaining the supposed information from him. Gyllenhaal plays a young CIA analyst at the overseas detention facility who monitors the violent interrogation. His pregnant wife (Witherspoon) ventures to Washington DC to find out about his disappearance through a family friend and Senator's employee (Sarsgaard). officials following his flight from South Africa to Washington DC to an undisclosed prison overseas. Rendition follows an Egyptian born terrorism suspect (Metwally) who is taken by U.S. Supporting roles filled by unfamiliar actors deliver as well, sucking the audience into the plot, and showing how many people can be affected by overseas terror attacks, and our means of investigating them. ![]() The film features an all-star cast, with Oscar winners Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, and Reese Witherspoon, as well as Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Omar Metwally. "I fear you speak upon the rack, where men enforced do speak anything." This Shakespearean line from The Merchant of Venice is echoed again in the new film Rendition which introduces the viewer to the "enhanced methods of interrogation", renditions, which began in the Clinton Administration and have become more commonplace since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. ![]()
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