Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 2:09:10 GMT
So I've been in bed sick most of today and decided to rent something and The Circle was there and the synopsis seemed interesting enough so I checked it out. Let me tell you that this movie is awful and completely boring giving you no real connection with any of it's characters. Tom Hanks' Bailey is really the only likeable character and that's simply just because he's Tom Hanks and Tom Hanks is a very hard actor to dislike in a performance. The character that we're supposed to enter this world as and connect with is Emma Watson's Mae but her character is really unsympathetic and bland. Now I've only seen Emma Watson is the Harry Potter films and Perk of Being a Wallflower. Each of those I found her to be fine but this movie? She was really bland and really gave nothing to the character what so ever.
There are moments in this movie where you're meant to care about her in terms of her family which she alienates, publicly embarrasses, so that back fires. Her friend in Karen Gillian's Annie who is clearly going down a dark whole but Mae can't be bothered with that because she's too busy being stuck up her own ass to give her more than 3 minutes of time. Then there is the whole Mercer thing. I don't know who Ellar Coltrane is but his performance was pretty unbearable to me. There are two times in which you're supposed to actually feel like Mae isn't just an asshole who cares about nobody but herself when she tries to help Mercer by showing his deer antler art work when he didn't ask for it only to be threatened with death threats and he confronts her about how none of this is normal yet she can't be bothered with such nonsense. She claims she's going to make this right but doesn't. Then of course she succumbs to peer pressure where this new technology of hers allows people to harass other people in the world with their phones who simply want privacy and this leads to people searching for Mercer who drives away and off of a bridge because he was being chased by these maniacs. All while we're supposed to actually feel bad for Mae in this situation? Bitch he's in this situation because of you I don't feel one bit of sympathy for you what so ever. We further don't really see her care about his death outside of going home for the weekend and crying a little bit. No funeral. No nasty death threats to her or anything from his family. Nope, just whoa is me look how hard my life is.
You've got Jon Boyega who is completely wasted in this movie as a character that basically does nothing. He's there to try and show Mae the error in The Circle's ways but all of it really falls flat. I really don't think this movie is hurt by him not even being in the film.
To top things all off this movie doesn't even have the decency to give you the viewer any type of closure. These two "evil" people in Tom Hanks' Bailey and Patton Oswalt's Stenton get no official comeuppance for the apparent crimes they have committed. I may have missed it but the story was very vague on what specifically it was that was being exposed at films end. Instead it's just their e-mails becoming public and Bailey saying "we're fucked" with no real visual after math to know what exactly happened. Instead Mae walks out into the light and the movie switches to her sitting alone in a kayak because that's what she does in her "free time" and some drones get a giant close up look at her face and she simply says "Hello" and boom, movie is over.
This movie completely fell flat to me and while the premise was there the execution was not. I would honestly avoid paying any money to view this film. it's up there for worst film of the year for me that I've viewed. Probably 2nd to Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. I give it a 2/10
There are moments in this movie where you're meant to care about her in terms of her family which she alienates, publicly embarrasses, so that back fires. Her friend in Karen Gillian's Annie who is clearly going down a dark whole but Mae can't be bothered with that because she's too busy being stuck up her own ass to give her more than 3 minutes of time. Then there is the whole Mercer thing. I don't know who Ellar Coltrane is but his performance was pretty unbearable to me. There are two times in which you're supposed to actually feel like Mae isn't just an asshole who cares about nobody but herself when she tries to help Mercer by showing his deer antler art work when he didn't ask for it only to be threatened with death threats and he confronts her about how none of this is normal yet she can't be bothered with such nonsense. She claims she's going to make this right but doesn't. Then of course she succumbs to peer pressure where this new technology of hers allows people to harass other people in the world with their phones who simply want privacy and this leads to people searching for Mercer who drives away and off of a bridge because he was being chased by these maniacs. All while we're supposed to actually feel bad for Mae in this situation? Bitch he's in this situation because of you I don't feel one bit of sympathy for you what so ever. We further don't really see her care about his death outside of going home for the weekend and crying a little bit. No funeral. No nasty death threats to her or anything from his family. Nope, just whoa is me look how hard my life is.
You've got Jon Boyega who is completely wasted in this movie as a character that basically does nothing. He's there to try and show Mae the error in The Circle's ways but all of it really falls flat. I really don't think this movie is hurt by him not even being in the film.
To top things all off this movie doesn't even have the decency to give you the viewer any type of closure. These two "evil" people in Tom Hanks' Bailey and Patton Oswalt's Stenton get no official comeuppance for the apparent crimes they have committed. I may have missed it but the story was very vague on what specifically it was that was being exposed at films end. Instead it's just their e-mails becoming public and Bailey saying "we're fucked" with no real visual after math to know what exactly happened. Instead Mae walks out into the light and the movie switches to her sitting alone in a kayak because that's what she does in her "free time" and some drones get a giant close up look at her face and she simply says "Hello" and boom, movie is over.
This movie completely fell flat to me and while the premise was there the execution was not. I would honestly avoid paying any money to view this film. it's up there for worst film of the year for me that I've viewed. Probably 2nd to Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. I give it a 2/10
