The Circle (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 110 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: James Ponsoldt
Stars: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks and John Boyega
IMDb score:
5,4 (105.067)
Releasedate: 27 April 2017
The Circle plot
"Knowing is good. Knowing everything is better."
A young woman, Mae Holland, is hired for a position at internet company 'The Circle'. The company links customers' personal data together through its universal system, giving users their own online identity in an age of civilization and transparency. This approach turns out to be less rosy when personal data ends up in the wrong hands.
Actors and actresses
Mae Holland
Eamon Bailey
Ty Lafitte
Annie Allerton
Mercer Regalado
Tom Stenton
Bonnie Holland
Vinnie Holland
Dr. Jessica Villalobos
Dan
Reviews & comments
Ebenezer Scrooge
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- 2150 messages
- 3092 votes
Ridiculous movie that's just as boring as the book. The story just won't start and there seems to be no end to it, as if you're walking in a circle all the time. Subpar acting too, from both Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. I've actually never really liked Emma Watson, although she does have something charming. Always by the book. Here she is again so sweet and innocent, but at the same time so terribly ambitious that you don't feel for her at all. The message doesn't get across at all. It must all be something Orwellian, but it poses no threat whatsoever. Those comments that you keep seeing remain on the screen far too short, so you can barely read them. Bad dialogues like: How are you really doing, Annie? You look rotten.[...]I'm taking you out to dinner. You have to eat now and then.[...]Your confidence in me is the wind beneath my wings. Annie, the unruly girl with her hoodie and pale face. The police are on the scene very quickly when they try to catch the murderess. And poor Mercer, dropped into the ravine with his jeep... 
And finally that crazy ending scene, when she's in the one in that kayak and looking up at those drones and says 'Hello!.' 
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Mevlut Karatas
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- 47 messages
- 47 votes
Have read both the book and the movie and both are really poorly developed. Anyone who pretends the book was much better is not really a 'literary' reader in my opinion, because the book itself wasn't very good either, more of a chicklit than anything else... Dave Eggers is just not really a good author, since I said it. You can tell a lot about the film, but not that the ending was worse than that of the book, quite the contrary... Where Mae happily joins The Circle until the end and gets annoyed at the end because she can't see the thoughts of Annie -who is now in a coma- and thinks that these should also be an audience, in the film the entire industry is at least put a heel in a way that could well be. Was it not Zuckerberg himself, who refused to specify which hotel he'd slept in when a member of the Washington privacy commission asked him on April 11 earlier this year.. His "for privacy reasons" sounded very hollow at the time.
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tommykonijn
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- 5153 messages
- 2366 votes
Interesting concept and a promising cast. However, The Circle appears to have some flaws. The film gets off to a slow start and especially the characters that Mae comes into contact with are quite irritating at times. During the middle part it gets a bit better, but there is no really catchy climax. A shame, because with Emma Watson and Tom Hanks you have two good names in the house, but neither of them gets the chance to excel with this material. What remains is a film that is reminiscent of a somewhat lesser Black Mirror episode: quite entertaining across the board, but you'll forget it in no time.
2.5*
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