Rendition - Region 1 DVD
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Rendition
16 years, 1 month ago at Mar 27 19:52
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I knew nothing about this film when I picked it up, choosing it solely for the actors. It was a great film, well cast, well written, extremely well acted. I loved that I didn't know I was watching past events at the same time as watching present events, and when they met up, it was amazing.
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Roger Ebert called it "perfect," and certainly the timing couldn't have been much better: Rendition was released just as the U.S. was debating anew the issue of "extraordinary rendition," a policy (begun under the Clinton administration, accelerated after September 11, 2001) of handing over suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Alas, the movie only rarely fills in the outlines of a prototypical "issue movie," the kind of thing peopled by cardboard characters tracing the patterns of an important, indeed urgent, subject. The plot kicks into gear when a
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Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Release date: 1 February 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0794043112928 UPC: 794043112928
Release date: 1 February 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0794043112928 UPC: 794043112928
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shiftybunny rated this 4/10 7 years, 9 months ago