The Circle - Review Thread

Easily the worst theatrical film of the year, maybe the past 5 years.

The entire movie builds up the idea of people gradually giving up their individual privacy via improved technology in return for the promise of a better, safer, and more social society.

The main character, Mae (played horrifically by "actress" Emma Watson), encounters a mysterious stranger/co-worker, Ty, who warns her about the very vague implications and consequences of loss of privacy. The movie gets entirely creepy, and Mae seems to visibly react to some rather uncomfortable invasions of privacy, but her character never vocalizes these feelings and, instead, goes along with the creepy ideas, to the point of championing them.

Then, after seeing one final example of how a seemingly useful trade of privacy for safety turns horribly wrong, Mae and Ty's solution is to double down and further extend the use of technology at the expense of people's individual privacy, attacking the two heads of The Circle who are never really guilty of anything other than technological enterprise, and ultimately shared exactly the same goal as Mae. Meanwhile, Karen Gillan slowly transforms into Gollum without much exposition being offered up as to why until, suddenly, all is well and she casually reveals what was going on with her character.

It's nonsensical to the point of being insulting. 

1/10 - Total garbage and devoid of a single shred of defensible filmmaking, storytelling, acting, or direction.