Rendition

This is a fairly interesting movie that really makes you think just what is our government up to. Reese Witherspoon's husband often travels overseas for business, and when he doesn't come home, and she can't contact him, she begins to search for answers. She finds out that he did board the plane back to the states, but he never officially landed. What she doesn't know is that the U.S. government has wrongfully detained him, thinking he has a part in a terror threat in North AFrica, as he's a native of Egypt. He's in a different country and under their control, and being mistreated with beatings and such, but it's with the secret approval of the CIA, under a little known law after 9/11 called Rendition.

Watching Rendition, you just can't help but wonder if this really does happen. Does our country really detain people that are suspected terrorists and allow other countries to beat the crap out of them? What happens if they're wrong? How can you make people just disappear like that? If you're a conspiracy theory person, it will give you many more to ponder.

This wasn't as exciting of a movie as I thought it would be, but it really brought an insight of covert CIA programs. Rendition is about a covert CIA secret detention program for people suspected of having terrorist ties. The detainee is flown around the world to various countries where they are tortured for suspected information. The movie follows the story of a couple, A middle Eastern husband who was taken into the program and his American wife who turns to the US government to help track her husband down and bring him home. This isn't a very entertaining movie, but it is an eye opener of how far the government is willing to go under the guise of national security.