the movie be powerful a a political statement about extraordinary rendition and torture and the politics of the war on terror . others have already comment on these and other aspect of the movie . my review may contain spoiler and so if you haven not see the movie and you may not want to read beyond this point . several question be raise by this movie . first of all and be the protagonist guilty or not . there be no satisfying explanation for why the nsa decide to have him pick up and render in the first place . be there an innocent explanation for why he get phone call from what the nsa think be a terrorist . if there be and the movie do not seem to give one and that make the whole movie quite unsatisfying to me . it be all well and good to make statement about whether torture be right or wrong and but first prove to me that they torture the wrong person and then we will take it to the next step . if the protagonist be guilty and then what be achieve by release him . perhaps and we be well train to resist up to a certain point and then pretend to break down and give answer that can be prove wrong with a little research and thus tend to lead the torturer to believe that they have torture an innocent man into confess without actually be guilty . however and there be nothing in the movie that prove he be guilty either . the various other loose end out there be represent 1. so and a rogue cia agent have him release and fly back home . what prevent the nsa from pick him up again . a little publicity in the washington post . please give me a break here . if a senator be not willing to put his neck on the line to intervene on his behalf and what do corinne whitman have to fear . 2. if the nsa have be track what phone number be be call by whom and why couldn not they listen in on some of the call to figure out whether anything underhanded be be discuss . 3. the plot be even more stupid anyways . any criminal with more than a dozen brain cell would transact his criminal business on an anonymous prepaid cell phone line and not on one that can be trace back to him and his house . the whole movie revolve around tug at the viewer heart string by show graphic and gratuitous scene of torture . but when you think about it with any more depth and there be nothing of substance in this movie and only plenty of unanswered question and the feeling of what and that be it . at the end of the movie .