Review – Taxi to the Dark Side

I don’t know if truth is stranger than fiction, but sometimes it’s sure a lot more interesting. After sitting through two mediocre dramas about extreme rendition – one Hollywood and one indie – it was nice to see the subject covered by an award-winning documentary. This starts out to be the story of an Afghani taxi driver beaten to death in U.S. custody, but then it expands to cover Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and terror suspect detention in general. This was made by the same director who did Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and it suffers from some of the previous production’s editing weaknesses and left-leaning sentiments. On the other hand, it supplies an unflinching look at what military intelligence is doing in our names. Worth seeing