Rendition

Tagline: What if someone you loved just disappeared?

Terrorism is the buzz word in India since the last few days. Last week, there was something similar to a One day cricket match happening in the Indian parliament with both sides chasing 271 for a no-confidence motion. Suddenly, we have the whole nation searching for bombs in each n every single by-lane. At the same time, there are cease-fire violations in the LoC and one more Indian soldier lost his precious life. So this is a movie blog and Why am I talking about social issues?
All this terrorism asks me to educate all my ignorant readers (the very few of them if any ;) )and hence the movie 'Rendition' I saw a few months back. The movie refers to an existing practice in the US which is termed as 'Extraordinary Rendition'. According to this, anyone suspected to be involved in terrorism can not be tortured in US soil by their intelligence but they can be transported to one of the friendly/allied nations and can be tortured and interrogated there. So we have Reese Witherspoon starring as a wife of an Egyptian with a green card and he has a name similar to that of a wanted terrorist. As soon as he enters US after an official overseas trip, he is whisked off by CIA to an unknown foreign location and interrogated there. All the records of his entry to US are ofcourse erased. So the movie covers the troubles, his pregnant wife Reese Witherspoon goes through to find his whereabouts with the help of a friend with some political links. Then there is the sub-plot involving the interrogator-General of the foreign nation, attempts on his life and his daughters romance with a local boy. The narrative especially the second part is Nolanistic and ends up in a pretty interesting way winding up many loose ends. The movie as a whole is not 'great' and is just above average. But then I heard about 'Extraordinary Rendition' for the first time here. Found the movie very informational :). Wiki has lots of info on this.
The movie also stars Meryl Streep (as a senator if I remember right) and Jake GyllenHaal as a CIA agent somewhere in African continent where our guy is renditioned for torture.