Rotten
I don't fault Rendition for its liberal politics. I fault it for hammering home those politics in such pounding, slanted fashion.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rendition
What if someone you love... just disappeared?
2007 · 2h · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Gavin Hood
Overview
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
Director and cast
- Gavin Hood Director
- Omar Metwally as Anwar El-Ibrahimi
- Reese Witherspoon as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Douglas Freeman
- Moa Khouas as Khalid
- Zineb Oukach as Fatima Fawal
- Igal Naor as Abasi Fawal
- Laila Mrabti as Lina Fawal
- David Fabrizio as William Dixon
- Hadar Ratzon Rotem as Safiya
- J.K. Simmons as Lee Mayer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Rotten
If these new, allegedly topical movies are to make us feel anything -- to move us toward any action or even just toward any fresh realization -- they need to at least seem alive on the screen, instead of just courting our polite, measured applause.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Fresh
That it's embarrassingly plausible, that it depicts things that have happened and that are probably still happening, is enough to make Americans sick to their stomach.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
What finally gives Rendition its headlong narrative momentum is the sense that we're rarely certain what argument the filmmakers are endorsing.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
It's one thing for a thriller to be timely, quite another for it to function as Rendition does, a gripping piece of entertainment with a clear head on its shoulders.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
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