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Extraordinary Rendition [2007] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Jim Threapleton Actors: Andy Serkis, Omar Berdouni Studio: Liberation Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £3.46 as of 22/11/2009 09:10 GMT details You Save: £12.53 (78%) New (8) Used (3) from £3.35 Seller: rsdvd Rating: 47 reviews Sales Rank: 40225 Format: Dolby, PAL, Widescreen Language: English (Unknown) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 0 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 77 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060131391519 ASIN: B0014BJEPG Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Release Date: April 28, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 47 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...10 Next » FAR BETTER THAN THAT HOLLYWOOD VERSION March 27, 2008 H S Marks (Manchester UK) 4 out of 9 found this review helpful Now this is THE real goods it was in fact called RENDITION until the producers of the Hollywood movie of the same name used their influence br /to try and get this far better film buried. br /This film blows that other attempt out of the water !! br /Spread the word this one is the real deal !! br / br /H S Marks Arty but serious movie April 20, 2008 James Cameron (a world of my own) 2 out of 9 found this review helpful Extraordinary Rendition - a film about a most serious crime that is still being committed by the US government against innocent people. Although the film has a very arty feeling about it, it truly sets the feel for what is a an incredibly brutal act of terrorism by the Americans. br / br /This is a very serious film about a very serious matter and is well worth a rent if nothing else. OK but... April 27, 2008 Julie Cutler (Coventry) 5 out of 6 found this review helpful The fault of this film is that the hero is picked up like a pawn on a chess board, knocked around a bit, forced to sign a meaningless confession and then put down in the same place. It taught me nothing about renditions that I didn't know already. In the dark days of the 21st Century, bad things go on in the name of freedom and guaranteed oil supplies. So since it is only 77 minutes long, could the writer/director have come up with something to say about who is doing the renditions? Nah- cop out- that would have required research and been politically damaging. So bad CIA men (as described in screen text over the closing credits) take men off the streets in the UK because they are Moslems and pass them on to third world torturers. The bad CIA men have outstanding warrants out for them in the European Union. Oooh how comforting. Andy Serkis (aka Gollum) makes a reasonably believable head torturer. This is a movie to get passionate about when you're young. It merely left a middle aged lowercase liberal midly saddened. Extraordinary Rendition April 24, 2008 M. D. Hart (London) 4 out of 5 found this review helpful What put me off this movie from the start was the title, because it is a bit of a mouthful and makes little sense to most people. "Extraordinary Rendition" (for those of you who don't know) refers to the process of arresting and transporting somebody from one state to another, usually outside of the 'normal' judicial system and often involving many countries who would rather keep their involvement a secret. Word has it that such procedures are kept quiet because their legality and the legality of the detention are questionable. br / br /With that deplorable necessity out of the way I can say that the plot of the film is exactly as I have described above - Zaafir is a man abducted from the streets of London and taken via many secret flights from country to country until arriving in an 'unknown country'. Here he is interrogated and tortured by The Interrogator (tsk) and kept in solitary confinement until he is returned to the UK without explanation. Everything has changed for Zaafir and the rest of the film documents his attempts to re-integrate into a world that has become opaque and unrecognisable to him. Director and Writer Jim Threapleton has delivered here a part-thriller, part-expose narrative that has a very well defined contemporary social consciousness that exaggerates 'Guantanamoesque' themes and the idea of innocent people being targeted and twisted to 'alternative' ways of thinking. br / br /Of course this is not the first movie to tackle such themes but this one just happens to be better than most of the others; in terms of action this is a fast-paced thriller but also has moments of such intensity that it achieves a roller-coaster effect for the audience, who will be gripped by the sheer reality of what does go on behind closed doors. Omar Berdouni is believable as the protagonist and the supporting cast are consistent, but for me the star of this film is Andy Serkis. We know him from Lord of the Rings and King Kong, and we know him from smaller roles in a number of films, but in Extraordinary Rendition Serkis proves his metal as a versatile actor and gels the whole thing together. Well worth watching and full of attractions for all adult viewers, this movie is not going to win oscars for its cinematography or editing (which are standard) but is definitely one for the collection. A Paranoid Nightmare April 24, 2008 Barney McGrew (UK) 5 out of 7 found this review helpful This film is the bleak and claustrophobic tale of Zaafir, a college lecturer living with his wife in London. Without warning or explanation, he is ripped from his steady life and forced to endure torture and humiliation at the hands of a group of anonymous captors. When he is finally released (he is discovered half-dead in a car park) he is a broken man, both physically and emotionally. Through a series of increasingly disturbing flashbacks the viewer is gradually drawn into a subterannean world of paranoia and skewed morality, where it is almost impossible to differentiate between terrorists and those trying to root them out. br /Andy Serkis (of 'Gollum' fame) is suitably sinister and enigmatic as the leader of Zaafir's captors whilst Omar Berdouni portrays Zaafir as an ordinary yet intellectual man whose whose life is turned into a living nightmare, whose shattered mind never really recovers, and whose marriage is sent spiralling into the gutter by his inability to find peace. br /The music and lighting are suitably claustrophobic whilst the cold brutality of Zaafir's captors makes for a harrowing and ultimately unforgettable 77 minutes. Showing reviews 1-5 of 47 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...10 Next »

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