Review – Rendition

Here’s a mediocre movie about an interesting subject: the practice of seizing people suspected of being terrorists and transporting them to countries that have few compunctions about torturing them. The part of the movie that deals with a victim of this despicable practice – and his wife’s attempts to find out what happened to him – is pretty good stuff. But then we get a bunch of other complications, some of which were more soap opera than international intrigue. By the end of the picture, even the time stream starts to unravel. Though there’s a good story and an important message buried in here somewhere, they end up smothered under a thick load of extraneous nonsense. Mildly amusing