Extraordinary Rendition

Compelling
Excellent film, although it wasn't as popular as the version with Reese Witherspoon.
Nonetheless, this is a great movie! Very glad that Omar [Berdouni] is getting credit and popularity he deserves as an excellent actor.

Scared to review this one!
The bible says that as you sow so shall you reap.
If you say that kidnapping, torture and denying basic civil rights is evil, you may be the next target? We have by our actions internationally
become a nation with war criminals in the police forces( CIA and FBI?).
This film is pretty much the documentary of one of thousands of cases:
in this case a Pakistani college professor is kidnapped and tortured.
He was innocent and came back alive, but polarized and pretty much psychologically destroyed. Mind and body can take only so much in
even the strongest. I read a tale by a Russian where this kind of treatment was given to political prisoners: he said the best you can do
is stop eating and get very sick. They may let you live or not.
The alternative of endlessly dying and being revived is enough to break any firm spirit. The practice or deliverance of people without any
trial or real legal process to such treatment is actually recognized since...

Extraordinary Rendition
'Extraordinary Rendition' is a pretty dark and bleak look at extraordinary rendition flights since 911. It had the feel of a crimewatch reconstruction at times and the acting was a little wooden, but the themes explored were quite shocking and Andy Serkis managed to be truly menacing in his role of interrogator. The film didn't have a conclusive ending and left me with many unanswered questions. It is relatively short at 77 minutes and it could easily have stretched to 90 and tied up these loose ends. It is a worthy film for the topic it explores alone, it's just a shame it wasn't carried out a little better. A solid 3 stars.

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