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chupisfunky

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Una excelente trama, con 5 historias derivadas de un solo incidente....

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Posted jun 30, 2008 3:57 am pt

helldancer15

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This movie is one of the best movies of this year i believe its a great performance by everyone in the movie specially meryl streep was amazing. The plot is very well done and the twist at the end with the parellel time lines was a master piece...
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This movie is one of the best movies of this year i believe its a great performance by everyone in the movie specially meryl streep was amazing. The plot is very well done and the twist at the end with the parellel time lines was a master piece that you will never expect. To put it in a word it was AMAZING

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Posted may 26, 2008 2:30 am pt

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This is a very interesting movie based on an "innocent" man being accused of terrorism. Its a bunch of stories being told at once with an ending to be honest that is confusing. Witherspoon plays the wife of the man who is accused....
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This is a very interesting movie based on an "innocent" man being accused of terrorism. Its a bunch of stories being told at once with an ending to be honest that is confusing. Witherspoon plays the wife of the man who is accused. Gyllenhaal plays the american who is observing the questioning. Its more like torture but its government sponsored. Now part of what makes this movie touchy is that it shows the america allows the torture to go on and not do anything to protect one of its citizens. You could make a good argument that they even get involved in the torture. The acting is well done with good actors abound. The only problem I really had with the movie is the ending. It seemed to me that the makers of this movie wanted some kind ofhook so they threw this ending out there. It actually confused what was a pretty good movie up until that point. If you can forgive the ending this is a pretty good movie worth a viewing. Part of what makes this movie good is that you really do not expect anything from it. Once you start to watch it you see that its pretty good then the ending kills the momentum it had for it.

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Posted mar 26, 2008 8:06 am pt

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I actually did not intend to go an watch this movie, but when after leaving the theater I had no regrets. The acting exceeded excellent.

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Posted feb 26, 2008 12:45 am pt

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I actually did not intend to go an watch this movie, but when after leaving the theater I had no regrets. The acting exceeded excellent.

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Posted feb 26, 2008 12:43 am pt

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Well acted movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep. Unfortunately, the script doesn't match the quallity of the actors and takes a serious issue, confounds it with a love story and ends with an improbable ending...

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Posted jan 26, 2008 9:35 pm pt

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A very good movie. I have found this movie very powerful and interesting. The actors in this movie are great as well. This movie is about a husband taken from his family without anyone knowing because he was a suspected terroris. A really good movie!

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Posted jan 6, 2008 4:44 am pt

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With an all-star cast of Jake Gyllenhal, Resse Witherspoon, Alan Arkin, and the great Meryl Streep, you espect more out of Rendition. This is a very weak film with no voice. It's a story of the brutality of politics but the only brutality I found...
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With an all-star cast of Jake Gyllenhal, Resse Witherspoon, Alan Arkin, and the great Meryl Streep, you espect more out of Rendition. This is a very weak film with no voice. It's a story of the brutality of politics but the only brutality I found in it was having to sit through it. Meryl Streep, the woman of wonders, has a total screen time of maybe less than 15 minutes. This is one of those movies you know generates alot of Oscar Buzz but turns out to be a flop. Then, as if there wasn't enough confusion in thiss very dull film, the two parallel stories turn out to be in seperate time frames. So when you thought that the two lovebirds in the movie had no connection to the story, turns out there is. The way Rendition played the two stories was terrible, because you think that this is all happening at the same time. It is not interesting, and it is most definitely not Oscar worthy.

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Posted dec 26, 2007 2:50 am pt

• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  100
  Rendition is valuable and rare. As I wrote from Toronto: "It is a movie about the theory and practice of two things: torture and personal responsibility. And it is wise about what is right, and what is wrong."

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  88
  Taut, powerfully acted political thriller.

  by Ken Fox | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  75
  About two-thirds of the way through, Rendition takes a bad turn and sells out most of what made it worth watching in the first place. Witherspoon is given little to do except look weepy, Freeman's change of heart is Q.E.D., and the radical Islamist subplot overwhelms the action, which becomes so confusingly structured that I thought the projectionist had misplaced a reel.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  75
  There are some problems with the pacing, but this topical thriller about CIA-sanctioned torture is one of the most important "message" movies of the year.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  75
  A rarity - a political film that delivers its timely message with a cinematic punch and no undue speechifying.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  A maddening film, maddening in a good way, but maddening nonetheless.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Occasionally a movie's subject outweighs any aesthetic flaws, as it does in this unsettling thriller about the extraordinary rendition of terror suspects.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  63
  The movie Rendition asks, admittedly in a one-sided way, whether the ends justify these means.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  While the ingredients are there to make a tense and compelling post-9/11 thriller, Rendition falls flat.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  Disappointingly dull given the explosive subject matter, this at least attempts to get a message into the mainstream. An extra star for effort rather than execution.

  by Angie Errigo | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  60
  The jumping around is as deft as a hippo in a tutu, and the director, Gavin Hood, never finds a rhythm.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  60
  Rendition offers few surprises, and it tips its hand too soon and too predictably to do much more than goose your weary outrage.

  by Carina Chocano | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  58
  Rendition certainly makes the case that torture, whatever name it goes under, is indefensible, yet one can agree with that view entirely and still feel that the movie is just a borderline exploitation of what anyone who reads the papers already knows.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
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  The movie is not exciting, original or instructive enough to justify the unpleasant experience.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
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  Manages to take an urgent, important topic and turn it into standard Hollywood melodrama. What a waste.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »