Spoiler Points for Rendition (2007)

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Spoiler Points for Rendition (2007) [R] 120 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $14.25
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The biggest shock of the film is that the film leads you to believe that Abasi Fawal's daughter, Fatima (Zineb Oukach) and boyfriend Khalid (Moa Khouas) are alive, when in fact, Khalid is the suicide bomber that blows up the square at the very beginning of the film, with Fatima near his side. So, the entire story of Fatima running off with him occurs before the bombing. Likewise, she goes to the square on the morning of the bombing to save her father for she finds a scrapbook assembled by Khalid which ends with pages devoted to killing her father to avenge the death of his brother. She spots Khalid by the fountain in the square and approaches him. She was the one that told him that her father takes tea there every morning. As she comes upon him, he shows her he is armed. It's clear he does not really want to do this. When it appears he's not going through with the bombing, snipers shoot him dead. When he falls, he had releases the trigger and the explosion kills him, Fatima, others, and CIA man, William Dixon (David Fabrizio) in the car sitting next to CIA analyst Douglas (Jake Gyllenhaal) who are stuck in traffic trying to meet with Fatima's father, Abasi Fawal.

The second biggest shock comes when Douglas figures out that Anwar El-Ibrahimi must be innocent. He notes that the confession he gave to stop the electroshock torturing makes no sense. Nobody who earns $200,000 a year would take a bribe to improve the impact of terrorist Rashid Salimi's bombs for $40K he reasons. Moreover, he discovers the list of names written by Anwar under duress is actually a list of Egyptian Olympic soccer players from Anwar's past. So, he risks his career and sets Anwar free with his passport and tickets back to Chicago. Anwar arrives safely to find his new baby born.