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This was a pretty dreadful movie. The dialogue was barely audible, let alone comprehensible. Through the thick Italian accent of the main actors, you can only catch about every 3rd word, but honestly, with a plot this simple, you can have zero understanding of the English language and still understand what happens in this movie. That fact kind of speaks for itself. Having seen both real and fake violence, I can attest to the acting of some of the actresses. Their performance was pretty good; I usually gauge the performance of people in violent situations by how much it triggers my PTSD, and they earn their extra two stars for it.

After twenty five minutes I still have no idea what is going on. I give up. I couldn't really even understand the conversations, seems to "peppered" with some Italian. Other than the guy needs a bottle opener, I couldn't really glean much from what was shown. It was irritating at best, all the shots bleeping from one camera to the next. Even here I couldn't find much of a synopsis on the plot. I simply couldn't hang on long enough to see if there even was a plot.I'm not a fan of movies that are always from the camera's point of view. How did this trend even start? Seems to be a popular one. More and more movies are shown in this way.

Never been a fan of found footage movies, and while Closed Circuit Extreme is not the absolute worst it is one of the worst. Personally, the main problem was that it was incredibly dull and there just didn't seem to have any point to it. The story was barely there, and what there was of one was as thin as half-melted ice, and the pedestrian pacing made it even more interminable, certainly among the most tedious found footage movies and of any movie personally seen recently. Making it even more dull was the camera work, which was both annoying and amateurish. The footage frequently had no point to it and used to the extent that it does nothing to enhance the plot, instead it takes you straight out of the story and the little info boxes were just pure tack. The look of the movie was so drab it was literally colourless while the dialogue is stilted- I barely understood a word- and strained in delivery, the characters are so lifeless in personality and do nothing interesting that it's impossible to root for them(the psychotic killer could have been just been anybody and no one would bat as much as an eyelid) and judging from the acting nobody looked as though they wanted to be there. The one piece of acting that looked like acting, and it was actually the sole redeeming quality of the entirety of Closed Circuit Extreme, was the girl locked in the bathroom, the one time where you feel any genuine horror or anybody giving a toss about the situation they're in. All in all, dull, pointless and just a mess all round. 1/10 Bethany Cox