Review of Circle (2015) by Moviescritic.net . — 25 Feb 2016

Circle is a very interesting low budget movie directed by Aaron Hann (director of 19 episodes of TV series "The Vault") nominated for the New American Cinema award in Seattle.

The story goes as follows: Held captive in a mysterious circle and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live. One by one they get eliminated by an unknown force while they try to find reason and survive. This movie takes an original idea that would be ideal for a short movie and manages to successfully expand it to a full length movie without getting tiring. It will perhaps remind you of "Cube" (1997). Suspense is kept alive throughout this movie that is filled with comments about racism and xenophobia presented to the audience in a way similar to a theatrical play. The ideal ending tell a lot about human nature in an innovative, smart and disturbing way. The only thing I didn't like about this film is that last picture of the film that reveals who captivated those fifty strangers and that disclosure is plainly stupid and unnecessary. The movie underestimated it's own intelligence just with that one last frame.

Grade: B-.