CLOSED CIRCUIT is yet another British counter-terrorism movie which focuses on the supposed evils of the Security Service (MI5) rather than on the Islamists they fight. After a bombing in London the terrorist ring-leader is caught and put on trial, only for his defence lawyer to die in mysterious circumstances. A new legal team - one each for the closed and open courts - is brought in but they fail to declare that they've been sleeping together. Inevitably they stumble on a really dumb MI5 conspiracy in which the service, after making a mistake, decides the best thing to do is (spoilers) to murder a bunch of high-profile people in order to cover it up. It's nice to see upper-middle class London depicted but the characters are unsympathetic - Bana especially is miscast as a viper-tongue, divorced lawyer - and the plot is stupid; MI5 simply do not run around assassinating people and to suggest that they do is irresponsible because it adds more fuel to the usual idiotic conspiracy theories that circulate. If you want to know what's really going on then read the 7/7 Report.
Review of Closed Circuit
