Could have been much better...

It definitely could have been better, but I think Silicon Valley is a cult already. FB, Goog, Apple, TWTR ..all cults with cult leaders. The censorship and PC culture in reality is worse than portrayed in the movie...but yeah I see your point in some other ways. I went in expecting some of that so, in a way it seemed like it was a parody poking fun at itself, but kinda walked the line of drama/parody in parts. Even the casting was "multicultural" with Token's.

I read the posts here before watching and expected it to be worse. I was surprised I finished watching it. At least it wasn't long, but it wasn't that great either. 5.5, which is higher than 4's it got. Had a few positive elements, but nothing I'd recommend or ever watch again. Hollywood has put out mostly crap in the last 3 years...and this is no different.

I wouldn't say it was a terrible film (there are plenty of worse films out there). The basic story had a lot of potential but it needed someone to interpret it with a perceptive approach to technology and it's use/abuse of personal privacy. Unfortunately it was ultimately in the hands of amateurs who crafted a basic thriller without any real insight.

I agree with you. The film had a 12 certificate which meant that everything had to simplified and dumbed down. Darker and more complex plotlines were removed. The source novel is so much better than this mediocre adaptation. You wonder if someone like David Fincher had directed it, would it have been a better film , with a better script as well.

Agree that it could have been better. It was a ‘meh’ at best.
I found it a bit frustrating, it was an unsatisfying film. It was like an overly long and mediocre Black Mirror episode.
I couldn’t quite work out the main character, she seemed pretty weak and never had a strong reaction to anything; it wasn’t even satisfying when she f*cked them up at the end.....and I’m still a bit confused by that.
Ok the whole premise of no privacy and everyone’s information being out there is completely immoral and wrong, but to me there wasn’t anything shown that was explicitly underhand or overly nefarious happening, so what did the two bosses have to hide so badly?
And what was her new vision and plan for The Circle?
She seemed to know or at least come to the conclusion that too much tech was bad and yet, she didn’t really, because although she seemed to have a very weak aversion to having no privacy, she was sucked in (again weakly) and just went back to it....but her new vision didn’t seem any less invasive, as she didn’t seem put off by those drones in her face at the end.....so what was it all about?!
The best thing in the film was her dad, played by Bill Paxton.

Definitely agree that a lot of potential was set up in the first act and got lost along the way. It was so hard to follow the main character's thoughts. I had no idea when she was putting on a show vs. really believing what she was saying. I also didn't understand why she "drank the koolaid" even after the original founder told her about the data collection plan? A lot of things didn't make sense. This probably should have been a TV mini-series to really give the characters more depth.