A clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men.
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04/26/02
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Circuit (2002)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:5
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 26, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: JOHN, a naive cop who after being "outed" in his small conservative hometown journeys to West Hollywood to experience an openly gay life-style. He quickly falls into the fast-paced,... [More]
Starring: Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Andre Khabbazi, Kiersten Warren, Nancy Allen
Director: Dirk Shafer
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Reviews for Circuit
An unashamed gay interest soft-porn flick with lashings of sex, drugs, and dance music.
04/23/02
The film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative.
06/30/02
Director Dirk Shafer and co-writer Greg Hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama.
05/31/02
The film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture.
04/25/02
Circuit queens won't learn a thing, they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets.
04/16/02
Coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting, Circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story.
04/22/02
Kitschy, flashy, overlong soap opera.
06/14/02
It's too soap opera-ish to carry the heavy weight of the morality play Shafer has fashioned.
07/20/02
Top CriticSucceeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture.
04/26/02
Top CriticLike most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior ... Circuit gets drawn into the party.
09/13/02
Top CriticShafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plot or acting.
04/26/02
Top CriticLike Showgirls and Glitter, the most entertaining moments here are unintentional.
09/09/02
Top Critic...what a banal bore the preachy Circuit turns out to be
04/17/02
It's a thin notion, repetitively stretched out to feature length, awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects, droning house music and flat, flat dialogue.
05/25/02
Once again, the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated, and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle.
04/29/02
There is a real subject here, and it is handled with intelligence and care.
04/26/02
Top CriticA sudsy cautionary tale.
06/13/02
Top CriticA solid, more polished follow-up to Shafer's 1996 autobiographical mockumentary Man of the Year.
05/30/02
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