| | |  | SYRIA | Home » » Extraordinary Rendition | | | | | | | Description: | | A suspected terrorist (Omar Berdouni) is abducted, held in solitary confinement and tortured by an interrogator (Andy Serkis). Bonuses: making-of featurette, interview, filmographies. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Andy Serkis, Omar Berdouni, Ania Sowinski, Rami Hilmi | | Director:
| James Threapleton | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Bfs Entertainment | | Run Time:
| 77 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 25, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 CompellingFeb 12, 2008
By Andrea Capron
"Andrea"
Excellent film, although it wasn't as popular as the version with Reese Witherspoon.
Nonetheless, this is a great movie! Very glad that Omar [Berdouni] is getting credit and popularity he deserves as an excellent actor.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Scared to review this one!Jun 24, 2008
By R. Bagula
"Roger L. Bagula"
The bible says that as you sow so shall you reap.
If you say that kidnapping, torture and denying basic civil rights is evil, you may be the next target? We have by our actions internationally
become a nation with war criminals in the police forces( CIA and FBI?).
This film is pretty much the documentary of one of thousands of cases:
in this case a Pakistani college professor is kidnapped and tortured.
He was innocent and came back alive, but polarized and pretty much psychologically destroyed. Mind and body can take only so much in
even the strongest. I read a tale by a Russian where this kind of treatment was given to political prisoners: he said the best you can do
is stop eating and get very sick. They may let you live or not.
The alternative of endlessly dying and being revived is enough to break any firm spirit. The practice or deliverance of people without any
trial or real legal process to such treatment is actually recognized since WWII as a war crime by the Geneva convention ( on soldiers or civilians).
How do I feel knowing that my country which is supposed to stand for
freedom of expression and civil right is doing this kind of thing?
I'm frankly ashamed. I think if it happens to one,
then none are really safe ( on trumped up excuses or other charges).
Be afraid.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Extraordinary RenditionFeb 02, 2011
By Spider Monkey
'Extraordinary Rendition' is a pretty dark and bleak look at extraordinary rendition flights since 911. It had the feel of a crimewatch reconstruction at times and the acting was a little wooden, but the themes explored were quite shocking and Andy Serkis managed to be truly menacing in his role of interrogator. The film didn't have a conclusive ending and left me with many unanswered questions. It is relatively short at 77 minutes and it could easily have stretched to 90 and tied up these loose ends. It is a worthy film for the topic it explores alone, it's just a shame it wasn't carried out a little better. A solid 3 stars.
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Poor Delivery of a Good MessageOct 07, 2010
By J. Cipriani
This film delivers a relevant, timely, poignant and all-too-necessary message, but does so through an at-best mediocre delivery.
To be fair, the failure of this DVD lies not with any acting ability as the actors' performances were superb. Rather, the director and his technical team -- even for an obvious low-budget film -- failed miserably in producing a coherent, well-connected storyline lacking in substandard scene development and photography.
Though the torture scenes are vivid and realistic, the plot loses coherence at many points throughout the firm and and filming seems strained to continue the film in a logical and relevant progression of events. Obviously the sound crew and / or the director were not cognizant of the fact that in several instances lines were not delivered in either a coherent or understandable fashion. There were more than several instances when spoken audio was totally unintelligible and one would have needed to resort to subtitles to know what was being said.
Of course, this DVD also has no subtitles or captions for the hearing impaired.
A higher quality production touching on the same theme would be the film "Rendition".
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Keep the volume control handyFeb 16, 2009
By MorningSinger
This movie has a lot going for it, but it also has some serious problems with the sound. It goes from a whisper or mumbling to screaming or other loud noises constantly, and as a result I was constantly adjusting the volume. Even with that, I still missed a lot of the dialog. I tried to turn on the subtitles so at least I could read what I was missing, but there aren't any subtitles.
That said, this movie tells a very important story. Not just the horrors of rendition and torture, but it also gives us some insights into what the aftermath must be like for torture victims.
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