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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The theme is coming back or is more imminent now with the torture reports out last month (December 2014). You kind of can see where this is going and it might still be able to pull a surprise or two. This is not supporting showing both perspectives (if you do think there is another on that subject matter that is, you'll be disappointed) and shows no shades of gray or any other color rather than black and white.The characters are still nicely drawn and the plot moves along accordingly, though as mentioned with a twist or two that might surprise the viewer. There are some brave performances, stripping down - emotionally and physically. It's not an easy watch either way ... no matter what your thoughts on the matter are ...

From director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), I knew a couple of the lead stars of this film, and I knew it was something to do with terrorism, I was just looking forward to giving it a go. Basically in a square in North Africa, a suicide bomber attacks and kills eighteen people, including the boss of CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) who was also there, interrogator and torturer Abasi Fawal (Igal Naor) was the target, but he escaped unharmed. Egyptian born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally), his wife is Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi (Reese Witherspoon), they live together in Chicago with their young son, he has been recently in contact or involved with a violent organisation and known terrorist Rashid Salimi (Omar Salim). Returning from South Africa to the United States, Anwar is detained by officials and held in a detention facility near the site of the attack, Isabella is not informed of this, and despite being pregnant she travels to Washington to piece together what is going on, but she is only held back by security and is emotional getting no answers. Freeman is assigned to observe the interrogation of Anwar by Abasi Fawal, despite his own questions and torturing where he concludes Anwar is innocent, his boss insists it continues, justifying it is necessary to save thousands of potential terrorism victims, but it is obvious Freeman has his conscience playing with him as he watches the torture continue. Eventually Anwar does break and confess what he knows, he advised terrorists on how to create a bomb and was promised $40,000 for doing so, but Freeman thinks this confession is false, and he confirms this searching names on Google, they are the names of Egyptian football players, he also doubts that the man would take £40,000 and risk losing his family when his job earns him $200,000. Freeman orders the release of Anwar, without the permission of his superiors, and lets him escape, getting on a ship to Spain, he does eventually reach the U.S. and returns to his family, while the CIA analyst releases the details of the detaining to the American press, this story is read by the person who ordered this rendition, Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep). But the story switches the reveal that the interrogation and torture all happened before th attack seen earlier, Abasi's daughter Fatima (Zineb Oukach) ran away from home with her boyfriend Khalid El-Emin (Moa Khouas), unknown to her, he is a terrorist, he is the one who was the suicide bomber. Fatima finds out from photographs that her father tortured and killed Khalid's brother, and she finds out her boyfriend's plan, she turned up at the square to stop him attacking, but he is killed by the organisers, therefore forcing him to let go of the detonator and forcing the explosion, killing Fatima with him. Also starring Alan Arkin as Senator Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard as Alan Smith, Spider-Man's J.K. Simmons as Lee Mayer and Bob Gunton as Lars Whitman. Gyllenhaal is fine as the man battling with his morals, Witherspoon with her slightly short time on screen does great as the emotionally concerned pregnant wife, and Streep I agree despite being good at playing the cold-hearted superior is a little pantomime villain. I could just about follow what was going on, there is a relatively good twist having the attack happen after the events you see, when you assume it was before, and besides the bombing sequence the most prolific moments are during the interrogations, it is a little cluttered with characters and plot, but a good enough political thriller. Worth watching!

A very well-crafted film with a conscience. Yes, it may not have pleased the right-wingers, and if you enjoyed the torture culture portrayed in Zero Dark Thirty, then maybe you will have to examine your values after seeing this film.The role and rights of the military in a post-9/11 world are still the subject of debate -- a major plot-point in Season 2 of The Network revolved around this. When, if ever, is it right to use saran gas, or kidnap and torture, or kill innocent bystanders? To save a soldier? To save a President? To save face? This is one of the great moral debates of our era. One of Meryl Streep's best performances. She didn't touch her hair once! The direction and performances were generally all understated and subtle.Rent it, download it, watch it. Well worth the time.

Totally agree with some of the reviews for this movie. about an hour into it I just asked myself "what am i watching?" i didn't continue the movie after that i was so bored and the dialog was so slow and had no meaning to it that i just couldn't watch any longer. i read the spoilers reviews and i am glad i didn't watch the rest of it. most of the acting was really dull too everyone trying to be dead eyed and serious especially the main character and it just seemed out of place with no real back round other than hes an analyst. also i did not really care what happened to the prisoner character even though he has a family because they never showed him with his family. so in all i just did not feel this movie other than being super bored.