Circuit (2001)

One of my all time favorites.

I wanted to but couldn't!

Excellent adaptation.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I guess you had to be there, and I was. Most people will not have enough or the wrong kind of baggage to understand this movie. Its a chronicle of a lifestyle, and if you are on the outside looking in half of it will zoom right over your head. Go see it for yourself and try not to listen to others. The music alone is worth the six bucks and Tony Moran doesn't let a minute pass without some bumper music. A visual feast - thats entertainment !!!

I really thought this film would never end. If they had managed to shave an hour off the jumbled, cliche-packed story and edit it together in a way that gave the film any sort of flow, it might have been bearable, but as-is it was all I could to not to walk out. The lead actor's entire emotional range consisted of grinning, not grinning, and a really brief bit of rage. Kiersten Warren's performance as the straight ex-girlfriend was the only remotely watchable bit, aside from the token Bruce Villanch cameo. The strange color shifts of the low-quality DV were tremendously annoying. Even all the hot beefcake eyecandy wasn't enough to save this from the hell of bad amateur filmmaking. I usually have a huge soft spot for any vaguely gay film, even something as depressing and nihilistic as this one, but this was just too much tripe.

Judging from the other comments on IMDb, I fear that I've seenanother film, because whatever it was *I* saw called "Circuit"starring Jonathan Wade-Drahos wasn't anywhere near as "compelling," "objective" or "fascinating" as the film these otherpeople saw. This film has one of the worst scripts I've seen in*ages*: none of the characters is interesting, you can see the plottwists coming a mile away (and often scenes go on two minutespast the time you've figured out what is important about themoment), and the storyline gets wildly melodramatic. If they haddecided to play these over-the-top moments for laughs, it wouldhave been a great film. Now, it's deadly earnest, and deadlyperiod.The film is also incredibly pedantic and judgmental. Supposedlythe circuit is supposed to be something amazing and fulfilling tothese characters (a number of them say so throughout the film),but we never get to see anything that might indicate that. Instead,all we see is desperation, venality and tragedy. It's like acatechism class--anyone who takes drugs (even once!) MUST bepunished somehow!!!! I will give credit that as a director, Dirk Shafer has gotten a bit morevisual than with his previous film "Man of the Year," and there aresome decent bits considering the low budget he had to work with. But it can't compensate for the major problems mentioned above.

I thought this movie was going to be bad, but I just didn't know how bad! As a gay man, I was shaking my head at the stereotypes and the stupid characters. The acting was horrid, the lightening of the film even worse. the only saving grace was seeing Nancy Allen. She still lights up the screen! My friend and I laughed through the whole thing because it was so bad. in the movie a character calls the circuit the superbowl for gay men. As a movie the circuit the glitter of this year.