Review of The Circle (2017) by Richard J — 28 May 2017

It was REALLY hard to get through "The Circle". There were times where I was almost enjoying it, which was mostly when the film wasn't trying to have character. There were a few moments in the film that I reflected on afterwards that did what the film was attempting to do, and that's spark an important conversation about technology and human rights.

But that's the problem; there were only a few moments like that. Whenever it tried to get deep, the acting and over the top nature of the film muddied what little quality was there, and since the film was nearly 2 hours, they had to shove in all these useless characters that offered nothing special to the story.

They never made any real impact, except maybe the dead character, but other than that, they just made the film EXCRUCIATINGLY long. It would've made a fantastic short film if they had just cut out all the useless characters, and kept Emma, the dead character, and Tom Hank's character.

I imagine it would've been far more impacting.