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Circle
based on the international bestseller Moth Smoke, authored by Mohsin Hamid. Set in Lahore, Daira is a film about givings and misgivings, love and deceit, or as Hamid puts it, the “cooled” and the “uncooled”. A portrait of contemporary Pakistan featuring an adulterous romance between two ultra-rich jet setters. He is a banker and she is the wife of his best friend, and she is escaping the constraints of marriage and motherhood by prowling the city as a journalist
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Plot Summary
An amnesiac man wakes up in a mysterious room where he and eleven other strangers are forced to participate in a deadly game. Every few minutes, one person is chosen at random and executed, with the survivors being forced to make a choice about who will be next. The group must then confront their own pasts and moral dilemmas as they fight for survival.
Critical Reception
Circle was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, who largely criticized its derivative plot, uninspired direction, and gratuitous violence. Audiences also generally found the film to be a low-quality, unengaging thriller.
What Reviewers Say
A derivative and uninspired thriller that fails to engage.
Features gratuitous violence with little narrative substance.
Directed without any discernible style or flair.
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Fun Fact
Despite its negative reception, Uwe Boll is known for directing a prolific amount of video game adaptations and low-budget films.
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