Review of Rendition

Rendition (2007)
9/10
A Lesson of How to Make the Perfect Movie
15 April 2008
First of all, you should know I give 10 stars only to epic movies of my opinion. And "Rendition" is the only movie of 2007 which I gave 10 stars. I had always wondered why there is a huge amount of people working as a crew in a single movie, you just write and shoot it, what's the big deal? But watching even the first 5 minutes of this movie made me realize why those people are needed. Every scene, every second of the movie is a piece of art. And this is just the beginning. The actors are awesome, Reese Witherspoon is as brilliant as usual, the story is perfect, very complicated, very deep. For those who don't know anything about the movie; it tells the true story of an Egyptian man who gets "kidnapped" by CIA and is taken to another country because they think he's a terrorist. He gets exposed to loads of torture, while his wife doesn't even know how he got disappeared and tries to find out by the help of her friends. The storyline keeps changing and twisting throughout the movie, and the shock you will get is the reason this movie is a perfect 10. And just like any realistic movie, there's no complete good or evil. CIA's methods are debatable because they claim they saved thousands of people using this torture method. Even the bombers don't have to be evil, because they are reacting to an evil authority figure. But that evil authority figure isn't actually evil either, he's just being tough to keep order. So as you see, there's no solid right or wrong. My final word, this movie is far from the cheesiness of Hollywood. Thank you for making it.
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