Rendition

A serious movie.. the storyline is interesting and make you curious to find out whether the man is innocent.. serious story and great actors..

I have missed the movie when it is shown in cinema here, I bet due to the not so good feedback, its only shown for a quite short period, by the time I wanna watch it, its already no more.. I have seen the trailer of this movie and it is very interesting.. beside that, I quite like Jake Gyllenhaal.. so I was a bit upset that I missed the show..

I found the dvd of this movie last weekend, wow.. so happy.. basically the movie is about...

A pregnant wife Isabella is expecting the return of his husband Anwar (Egyptian-born who live in America) from South Africa.. but his husband doesn't not appear at the end.. so Isabella started to find out what has happened and why his husband gone missing.. actually Anwar has been arrested and sent to a secret detention facility in North Africa as a suspect of suicide bomb attack in North Africa and, according to phone records the known terrorist Rashid has made a phone call to Anwar..

For lack of more experienced staff, Freeman is assigned the task of observing the interrogation of Anwar by Abasi. It is accompanied by torture. After Freeman briefly questions and tortures Anwar himself, he is convinced of Anwar's innocence. However, his boss insists that the detention continues, justifying such treatments as necessary to save thousands from becoming victims of terrorism. Eventually Anwar confesses to have advised on how to make more powerful bombs, and to have been promised $40,000 in return. However, Freeman believes it is a false confession. Without consent of his superiors he orders Anwar's release and lets him escape through a clandestine trip by ship to Spain and return to his family at last..

At the same time, there is another story about Khalid and Fatima in North Africa shown in parallel.. and it shown the actual story behind the suicide bomb attack, a sad love story here and both of them died in the bomb attack.. in this story also shown how Khalid and his frens brain washed by those terrorist attack leader..

Overall it is a serious movie.. I enjoyed it and it creates a lot of space for your imagination whether Anwar is involve in the bomb attack.. all the actors and actresses in the movie have done a great job especially Jake Gyllenhaal as Freeman who believed that Anwar is innocent.. Anwar played by Omar Metwally also done an excellent job as an innocent man who been tortured badly.. and of coz the pregnant wife played by Reese Witherspoon who desperately looking for her missing husband is great too.. the only question of the movie is.. The record of a phone call supposedly made by Rashid to Anwar is not explained in the film, although it is mentioned that phones are sometimes passed on from one person to another, and that in South Africa, while Anwar's phone was off, there had been a call to it from an unknown person..