Circle Line

Dear Director, Please finish your film school. Storyline should be more tighter. No head no tale. How the hell that things is in the abandoned tunnel and nobody in the control room know about it. The monster practically screaming it's every second. Cannot hear at the tunnel.pple screaming. The only saving grace is the gal and the little boy like they are freaking hero. Jessica Liu acting pretty much useless in the movie. She not be three still the movie can be made.

Ending super lame. Have such high hopes. Maybe you can ship some Korean script writer over. Their horror makes more sense. Avoid this movie at all cost. Verdict👎👎👎

This is a low budget monster film, poor storyline, poor cgi. So many logical flaws in this film. For starter, how come the monster did not kill the old man direclty? Why did it wait for the old man return to the train? It is also unclear how the monster did not kill anyone instantaneously, but spending view minutes walking around. The dialog is very shallow. There is not enough background story to make the characters real. The ending is even worse. Absolute trash. I really cant see any good point about this movie. Do yourself a favor, dont watch this movie and use your time for other useful activities.

Although it's better than most modern jack neo films, it feels like a 1 hour 19 minute short film. Unpolished, undescisive, and plain boring. A lot of people would be less critical when it comes to the vfx which I don't think they should be. Remember, most horror movies have low budgets! If you insist on making a horror movie about monsters, maybe go for a practical approach OR dont reveal so much of the monster and let it be a mystery! Horror movies now adays give away too much anyways. And not to mention the sound design which is way too excessive and meaningless, the beginning didnt need to have a touching and sweet song to create a connection to the characters we dont even know!

The acting is so bad, especially the mother, the actors like the supervisor is a much better actor than her. Who the hell open the door of an old rusty car when you are trying to get out of sight of a monster? Come on people, the story line has so much potential but whoever the director is, freaking ruined it.

Contrary, the junior college lady is a really good character. She is pretty as well, comparable to the mother who doesn't know how to act scared or frustrated. And come on people, on such situation, she is freaking day dreaming. A lot of times, she froze on her spot like who the hell does that? It is an emergency and you got a kid to take care of, but you chose to look at the carnage. And she also told the junior college lady that she was a nurse, and that is an emergency, she surely doesn't fit in. Arggghhh I hate this movie so much!

The plot for this Singaporean horror film is simple.

A reptilian beast is released by the mother of it's owner after her child dies (implied); where it takes up residence in the subway system; and accidentally triggers a switch, to route one of the trains onto an unused track...where it gets stranded...and open to attack by said monster.

But not a whole lot in the film makes sense.

There are so many questions that go completely unaddressed.

First and foremost, what the hell the alien looking beast even is.

How the kid in the intro came to own it?

How big it got before they released it?

How long it was running rampant in the underground tunnels for?

How it survived?

What it was feeding on?

Not to mention all the gaping plotholes we are supposed to ignore.

Mainly...how you could conceivably "lose a train" in a modern subway system, in this day and age.

How the student's father was able to find them...while the rest of management was left in the dark about their location (despite the fact he told them where he believed they were).

And how they lost contact with him.

Not to mention, how the beast managed to procreate...when there is only one of them.

Though, I guess we are to assume it possesses the capability to reproduce parthenogenetically.

It certainly requires quite a bit of assumption, to simply engage with the storyline.

Which isn't exactly "good" writing.

(I won't even get started on the lop-sided character development)

On top of this...the monster is rendered with rather choppy CGI.

To be fair, it's not the worst CGI I've ever seen.

It's certainly better than the what we see in Cocaine Bear (to offer a reference point), for example.

That's for sure.

But they were way too ambitious with the action scenes...when their tech (or budget) just couldn't handle it.

Plus...the acting is quite bad.

Particularly in regards to the mother and son characters (who are the main characters in the film).

The kid was so damn annoying...I found myself rooting for his death.

I just wanted him gone.

And the mother wasn't much more tolerable.

But, alas...

I don't think you can blame Singapore for this.

It was a valiant effort.

I place the blame on Netflix for producing this type of high concept trash on the reg.

It's always been their policy to aim for quantity over quality.

I've no doubt this was a one-line pitch when it was green-lit.

Cause it shows.

2 out of 10.