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.
Acting
Rebecca Hall's controlled panic—she's doing all the heavy lifting here.
Cinematography
CCTV aesthetic that makes London feel like a panopticon.
Director
John Crowley
Eric Bana
Martin Rose
Rebecca Hall
Claudia Simmons-Howe
Ciarán Hinds
Devlin
Jim Broadbent
Attorney General
Kenneth Cranham
Cameron Fischer
Isaac Hempstead Wright
Tom Rose
Julia Stiles
Joanna Reece
Anne-Marie Duff
Melissa
Riz Ahmed
Nazrul Sharma
Denis Moschitto
Farroukh Erdogan
Jemma Powell
Elizabeth
Doug Allen
Ryan
Barbora Bobuľová
Piccola
Kate Lock
Mother
Katherine Press
Pregnant Daughter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2013, this rode the wave of post-Snowden paranoia but arrived just after the real surveillance revelations, making its fiction feel almost quaint.
The film's portrayal of closed material procedures was so accurate that actual British lawyers called it depressingly realistic—it's basically a recruitment video for why not to practice national security law.
GB
