Review of Circle

Circle (II) (2015)
7/10
Liked it: overall it's fine
9 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The first half is pretty much bland, kind of rushed and a litle bit messy. Still fairly entertaining though.

The second half on the other hand was for me, pretty phenomenal. Dialogues and interactions got way better and more interesting and the tension was more noticeble and better constructed. There were a few "plot twists" that I didn't see coming like the married couple one, which I found really interesting. And the final kill where the last guy tricked the litle girl and the pregnant woman was fairly well done, I could see it but it was not so obvious, it was decently built up as a final litle plot twist to truly represent human nature, which is pretty much was this movie is about.

However, for a movie with that theme and that happened all in one room without moving, it really lacked depth in the dialogues, especially in the first half which is pretty lackluster as I said before.

The end was meh, I didn't like it at all. I would've rather that the guy just went out and we didn't see anything else, for it to be more ambiguous or even that at the end, he died too, as a consequence of selfishness and part of the message of the movie as a whole.

I also really liked how it was capable of building tension without anyone touching or getting near to each other at all. You felt that they wanted to punch each other to death but they couldn't move so that tension had to be built up by pure dialogue and acting, in which to me, they suceeded for the most part.

Concluding, the end was lackluster, the first half was not really great and as a whole, for the main theme, the movie lacked depth and meaning. However, it is entertaining(though a lot of people might said it's boring), the acting is overall decent and they built the atmosphere well, and the second half is truly remarkable to me, so It's a fine movie overall. I'll give it a 7 which I think it's kind of generous to be honest. Let's say it's 6. something
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