![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect that the filmmakers were given a pretty pat thriller script, but attempted to squeeze it into the maze-like mold of something like 2011's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Closed Circuit is such a thriller, but badly paced, lazily filmed, and hopelessly opaque. There should be a lithe and muscular quality to thrillers, ensuring the audience is lost in the details enough to ignore the silliness of the film's plot. Maybe it's because I'm American, and I was raised on movies like The Firm, but I expect my legal thrillers to have more frantic investigation, more conflict, more running. Now is the time when we are all allowed to speak in unison: The case is far more complicated than it first appears, and may reveal a government conspiracy that goes all the way to the top, etc. Bana is going through a divorce, mostly because he and Hall used to be covert lovers, a fact that they hide from their boss (Kenneth Cranham) and the attorney general (Jim Broadbent). Through some sort of British legal red tape, they are forced to work separately, investigating their cases independently. Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall play a pair of state-sponsored defense lawyers who have been assigned to defend the last surviving terrorist of a vicious suicide bombing that killed hundreds. ![]()
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