Closed Circuit Movie Review

The movie has a strong start but a weak finale and somewhere in the middle looses stream and starts plodding along to its.

Closed circuit movie review.

The film stars eric bana rebecca hall ciarán hinds jim broadbent and riz ahmed plot. In truth the prying eyes of big brother play a marginal role in closed circuit although the larger theme of government trustworthiness does get a good going over. The ad campaign for closed circuit goes to great lengths to connect the film s plot with recent headlines about government surveillance. Director john crowley is a man with a good eye for picking dynamic screenplays.

A larming news for those who missed the recent edward snowden. Frank ochieng sf crowsnest. A high profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex lovers on the defense team testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy. Admittedly closed circuit gets off to a promising.

November 14 2018 circuit had the potential for conveying. Eric bana and rebecca hall in closed circuit. Closed circuit is a good although unexceptional suspense movie. A bomb planted in a lorry.

Closed circuit isn t so much of a misstep as a missed opportunity to say something noteworthy. Closed circuit is a 2013 british american political thriller drama film directed by john crowley and written by steven knight released on august 28 2013. The opening sequence of closed circuit in which viewers bear witness to london s bustling borough market being decimated by a terrorist bomb at the cost of a couple hundred lives through a collection of overlapping security camera images is so immediately compelling even more so for the way that it presents such horrifying imagery in a way that doesn t feel particularly exploitative that. Directed by john crowley.

Closed circuit review. Thu 24 oct 2013 17 30 edt. With eric bana rebecca hall jim broadbent ciarán hinds. His feature film debut intermission is a fun irish romp while his sophomore effort drama boy a is criminally underrated and shamefully ignored so seeing him sign onto a project written by the man behind dirty pretty things and eastern promises steven knight was an exciting discovery especially after.