John Crowley's thriller "Closed Circuit" begins with a terrorist bombing in London's Borough Market and was made only four years before an actual terrorist attack took place in the same location, not that I'm suggesting one lead to the other. Indeed, Crowley's film isn't about the attack itself but about the court case that followed and was written by Steven Knight, usually a good sign, and has a fine cast, (Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciaran Hinds, Kenneth Cranham, Julia Stiles, Anne-Marie Duff and Riz Ahmed, sexy, charming and menacing all at once and stealing the movie). It's also superbly shot in well-known London locations by Adriano Goldman so why isn't it more engaging?There's certainly the material here for a very good thriller and it is quite exciting but it's also highly improbable. I just couldn't take it's plot seriously and as conspiracy theory thrillers go it's all been done before. Remember, this was a post 9/11 movie and we ought to have expected something a little closer to reality; we were in the middle of 'the war on terror' afte all. Certainly not a bad movie, then just a very familiar one.
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