Directed by John Crowley, Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Chris Clark. Starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall. Music by Joby Talbot.
Storyline: Martin Rose (Eric Bana) and Claudia Simmons Howe (Rebecca Hall) are attorneys appointed by the Attorney General as defense lawyers to defend Farroukh Erdogen, a suspected terrorist responsible for a blast in a busy London market, killing almost 120 people. Martin and Claudia’s (ex-lovers) appointment with lot of conditions and restrictions, was deliberate by the Government to mislead the public away from the complicated case of national interest. In their investigations, both of them dig out the fact that the British Secret Service Agency Mi5 was involved in the blast, accidentally. Farroukh was an MI5 agent deployed in terrorist camps of Middle East who is said to have duped Mi5 and lead the plot for the blast. All this information is brought out by Farroukh’s son, through a hard disk from his father’s laptop. In the process Mi5 agents try to kill the boy, Martin and Claudia to protect the organization’s guilt, but all of them escape to appear in the court next day. But Farroukh is eliminated in the jail by Mi5, showing it as a suicide. Eventually the case gets posted to Government enquiry which would take years to be solved, despite all the efforts of the two lawyers to provide enough evidence against Mi5’s involvement in the blast.
Positives: The plot and the storyline were different with an end that is not successful to the lead roles. Very good performance by Eric and Rebecca. Clean and green movie with no sex scenes, no gun fights and no car chases. Just pure drama with beautiful love expressions, to be enjoyed by the audience on a nice weekend evening. The ill deeds of the powerful secret service agencies of some countries aided by the respective Governments, exposed once again.
Negatives: Definitely not a movie for the high voltage crowd. Success restricted to some countries only which approve slow and pure classical entertainment. Though the story is excellent, the way in which it is screened, seems to be a little out of flavour. Probably the stardom was not enough.
My rating is 2.5 out of 5
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