Gavin Hood's follow-up to his potent Oscar-nominated, post-apartheid crime drama TSOTSI (2005) is also a timely film about the consequences of injustice: In this case, it's the CIA's covert policy of "extraordinary rendition," by which suspected terrorists are snatched from foreign soil and secretly flown to a third country for interrogation and, possibly, torture.
En route to his Chicago home from a conference in South Africa, Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) is unexpectedly stopped by security in Washington’s Dulles Airport, hustled into a small room and interrogated about the nature of his trip. Before he fully realizes wh...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
122 mins