Rendition

"Extraordinary rendition" refers to the process by which the United States kidnaps innocent people and ships them to foreign countries, where despotic government officials torture them for information they don't have, and then the people are released--if they live--and sue the United States, and courts dismiss the suits because it would reveal "state secrets," even though everybody knows about it and they even make movies about it.

"Rendition" is a movie about this process that takes a long time going nowhere. It's not great. But it does highlight one of the tragedies of 9/11, that now several great actors of Arab or Indian descent are forced to play one of two roles: a terrorist, or someone who fights terrorists. In this film, one such actor is forced to say, "We have a saying. 'Beat your woman every morning. If you don't know why, she does.'" It's hard to imagine a filmmaker allowing that to be said by someone of any other ethnicity in movies today.