Rendition

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Rendition

R

2007

2h 2m

Mystery & Thriller

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Isabella El-Ibrahimi, the wife of an Egyptian engineer, tries desperately to track down her husband after he disappears on an international flight. Meanwhile, a CIA analyst's world spins out of control as he witnesses the engineer's unorthodox interrogation at the hands of secret police.

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Critics Consensus

The impressive cast cannot rescue Rendition, which explores complex issues in woefully simplified terms.

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Alonso Duralde

MSNBC

May 1, 2008

But Rendition, in the end, is a Lifetime movie with pretensions toward being a political thriller. (They could even call it YOU HAVE MY HUSBAND! since Witherspoon shrieks that at Streep in a ludicrous scene.)

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Oct 22, 2007

I don't fault Rendition for its liberal politics. I fault it for hammering home those politics in such pounding, slanted fashion.

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Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Oct 20, 2007

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.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Nov 22, 2025

2/4

What’s the point of tackling a real-life hot-button issue if everything about it is presented in an only-in-Hollywood style of fantasy filmmaking?

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Jan 22, 2025

2/4

It might have been an intriguing site of debate; instead, it’s a message movie that has its answers wrapped up in a pretty bow.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Nov 27, 2020

6/10

It suffers primarily from the fact that reality doesn't always translate to entertainment value.

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Zach S.

@RT36615665 May 26, 2026

If the aggregate of the time these 'professional film critics' spent in Afghanistan was 1/10th of the time they all spent in 'flim school,' I'd care what they think. Very concise and entertaining movie that addresses very complex issues in a digestible way.

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Giorgio G

@GioBlob Sep 13, 2025

My gosh, I had seen this movie nearly 20 years ago and found it profound and somehow scary at the same time. Not scary as in a horror movie, but because of its possible social and political implications. And now, fast-forwarded to 2025, the world under Trump is witnessing exactly the movie's fictional situation in real time, and thousands of time a day, with innocent people being capture, dragged into an obscure hole, only to then actually disappear into oblivion. What seemed an extreme and improbable situation back then is a daily routine to all those thousands of ICE agents in the US and their targets, immigrants, illegal or not, and pretty much anybody who speaks up against Trump. If you were afraid that George Orwell's 1984 could someday become a reality, and that this movie "Rendition" is far too absurd to become true, then you only need to look at the news nowadays and realize that the horror images of the past have unfolded a million times worse. 9/10 points!

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Sunsun X.

@sunsunxs88 Jun 29, 2025

The ending is open and it encourages you to think further. Was the decision which the actor took right or wrong, etc. I loved this movie! I don’t know why the rating is not so well?!

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Wendel L

@BRZRKR Dec 27, 2024

Direção: Bom Atuação: Bom Roteiro: Ruim Caracterização: Ok Soundtrack: Ok

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Jill T

@RT45451929 Nov 18, 2024

Excellent movie. Exposes secret agents being a law unto themselves when dealing with people presumed to be terrorists. Justice eventually served through the bravery of one who would make a stand.

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Sue M

@RT44918381 Aug 17, 2024

I understood the movie is about a terrorist group but lost the understanding as the foreign language was not on English. What part did Fatima play ? Really not worth watching.

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Synopsis

Isabella El-Ibrahimi, the wife of an Egyptian engineer, tries desperately to track down her husband after he disappears on an international flight. Meanwhile, a CIA analyst's world spins out of control as he witnesses the engineer's unorthodox interrogation at the hands of secret police.

Director: Gavin Hood
Producer: Steve Golin, Marcus Viscidi
Screenwriter: Kelley Sane
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Production Co: Anonymous Content
Rating: R (Torture/Violence|Language)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 19, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 29, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.7M
Runtime: 2h 2m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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