THE CIRCLE (2017) REVIEW
With such huge ideas and thought-provoking theme, The Circle should have been one of the most intriguing techno-thriller this year. But it ends up otherwise. So what went wrong? The Circle begins with Mae (Emma Watson), a smart, beautiful young woman who is struggling to find a better job to support her family. One day, her best friend, Annie (Karen Gillan), brings a good news for Mae that she has been scheduled to do a job interview at The Circle, the biggest tech-company in the world. And of course, she nails the interview. But things are getting messy (which, ironically, also happen on the movie itself), when her new boss, Bailey (Tom Hanks), launches a new camera technology that’s integrated with his social app, The Circle, to fulfill his obsession to control the world with full openness and wipe people’s privacy for good. Truth to be told, The Circle starts with a bang. The set-up and its thought-provoking theme are undeniably promising to become another hit for writer / dire...