Well, it's not completely awful, but it's pretty bad. (You can get some idea of the level of rip-off involved by examining the DVD cover: you've got a digit inserted in the name of a number. How many times have we seen that before?) There's no deep thought required, since all the metaphors are transparent and every scene has been foreshadowed. Plus, it makes no sense. Neither of the alternate "endings" is plausible. I never believed the main character would take EITHER of the courses of action depicted. When a secondary character is trapped by a piece of furniture, you never believe that he can't get free, especially with the help of the lead character. And why do the other tenants survive in one case and not the other? The lead character's actions shouldn't have had any effect one way or the other. So you're left with a 78-minute web movie that probably played OK as a sort of high-tech serial. What's going to happen next week? But it never comes together in a feature-length version. Not worth your time.
Review of Circle of Eight
