Movie-Rendition

Rendition (2007) is a very good movie and is very very scary.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Omar Metwally, it is a warning voice of a political and law system gone awry, a system that no longer is recongnizable as "American," but seems more and eeriely akin to communist or dictatorial systems of government.

Metwally is a Egyptian born, green card holding resident, living in Chicago with his wife, Witherspoon, son, and expectant second child. He is on a business trip to South Africa and disappears on his way home, abducted by the U.S. governement. Then, because legally, he cannot be held without charges on U.S. soil, he is sent to a foreign country, there to be "interrogated" by allies. So technically, maybe the U.S. did not torture him, but we sent him to be tortured.

Now if you think the is WAY out of the realm of possiblity, I urge you to watch the short documentary in the extras section called Outlaws. If that does not scare the crap out of you at the excess of power we have freely given our leaders, I don't know what will.

Rendition is powerful, frightening and overwhelming. It is also something that people should watch.