The idea was a good one, but it felt like a 2 hour half-story. It took an hour for us to see actual storm clouds in the horizon, and there was no resolution at the end. They took so long setting up this problem of invasion of privacy, then choosing scapegoats over confronting the issue. There is no actual conflict in this story - which is not surprising, since only like 3 or 4 people demonstrate the ability to have an independent thought. Mae seemed to have character at the beginning of the movie, and even seemed a little put off by the hive-mind culture at Circle, but by the end of the movie she was just another one of them.
Overall I didn't hate the movie, but I did think it was a waste of time, and I'm frankly surprised, given that Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega and Patton Oswalt are involved.
Shout by Stu_1EBlockedParent2017-07-27T07:33:26Z
The idea was a good one, but it felt like a 2 hour half-story. It took an hour for us to see actual storm clouds in the horizon, and there was no resolution at the end. They took so long setting up this problem of invasion of privacy, then choosing scapegoats over confronting the issue.
There is no actual conflict in this story - which is not surprising, since only like 3 or 4 people demonstrate the ability to have an independent thought. Mae seemed to have character at the beginning of the movie, and even seemed a little put off by the hive-mind culture at Circle, but by the end of the movie she was just another one of them.
Overall I didn't hate the movie, but I did think it was a waste of time, and I'm frankly surprised, given that Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega and Patton Oswalt are involved.