Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Lawbolisted Powerful

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Panorama ***THIS REVIEW DEFINITELY CONTAINS SPOILERS***I really wanted to love this movie. I watched the Directors cut. I didn't quite hate it but it did fall way short of it's potential.I was a circuit boy in NYC from about 1989 - 2004 and I've never been to any party that looked as lame (except for one in San Francisco) as the ones shown in this movie--and it's actually ABOUT circuit parties as the title would suggest. I would have wanted my money and my drugs back from any of the parties in the movie.The subject of circuit parties, drugs and sex is extremely complicated but it was my experience that it's the minority who get lost in the scene and destroy their lives.These people, likely, have addictive personalities to begin with.Most people I knew who were deeply into the circuit party scene were pretty responsible about it and had extremely responsible jobs, careers and lives outside of the scene ranging from doctors to nurses to architects to construction workers to pilots to politicians to television personalities to teachers to scientific researchers to name a few.So, in my opinion, the movie only focused on a minority of people who got very lost in the scene and life--which is fine. But, the movie really needed a way to explain that that was its point of view instead of making it look like anyone who goes to circuit parties is like that. It would have been easy to have included a character who went to an occasional circuit party, did drugs, recovered, and went on functioning in real life--like most circuit boys do. This would have been an easy way to show that there is another type who attends circuit parties (the majority) and that the movie was focusing on the worst case scenario.Besides the movie's many obvious shortcomings mentioned in many other reviews, my 3 major issues with the film are:1. The music. It was absolutely horrible, low end, lame, obscure, undanceable and very forgettable--except for the remake of High. I understand the movie had a very low budget but there are certain things in a movie about circuit parties where corners (like getting rights to good/real circuit party songs) cannot be cut.2. It didn't show anything about how horrific it is and how long it takes to come down from the drugs taken at a circuit party--the week of being extremely tired, cranky and depressed while the body is recovering from being poisoned and the brain is attempting to produce serotonin again naturally.I'm all for doing the right drugs and the right amount of them with the right timing at circuit parties--that's what these parties are all about and they aren't worth attending if drugs (especially x and k) aren't involved. Drugs are part of the ritual and, in fact, are responsible for creating the ritual. But, what goes up must come down and that part ain't fun. The movie showed none of that. If someone actually went out every night (like John apparently did in the movie) and did that amount of drugs, at best he would be so wiped out and depressed he wouldn't be able to get out of bed for a week after only a few days of straight partying. At worst he'd easily die of an overdose.3. Why in the world would a special bullet containing some mystery drug that can kill someone with one bump even exist in the party scene (or at all) and why would someone bring it to a circuit party? What was it (the movie never mentioned what the drug actually was)? Who was Hector expected to sell it to at the White Party? This ridiculous and completely unbelievable, manufactured premise to end Hectors life was a huge, unforgivable and nonsensical flaw in this movie. Hector could have easily killed himself in a much more believable way by simply overdosing on his drug/drugs of choice--maybe by doing several giant bumps of k and washing down a handful of x with a huge glass of G--that oughta do the trick.What this movie did do for me was make me long for my circuit boy party days where I had some of the best times of my life high as a kite on a dance floor dancing to amazing music of the late 1980's - 1990's with friends and falling in and out of love with a mysterious, high, beautiful, stranger from some far away, exotic place who would be the man of my dreams for a few hours or one night...only until the drugs wore off.This is why I gave the movie 5 stars.

garbagelvr *SPOILERS* This movie is the most dreadful, horrid, wretched, awful piece of trash I've ever seen. The acting is pathetic (unless you enjoy soap operas & children films), the directing is horrible and the writing is appalling. It is actually so bad that my friends and I have created a 'way to get through the circuit' by inventing a drinking game for this garbage.The film manages to hit just about every stereotypical gay male fantasy possible in the first half of the film (pre-Red Party) i.e. cowboys & indians, slutty football player, mysterious hooker, frolicking naked in a pool & the list goes on...mysteriously they start to fade half-way through (did they run out of ideas?). The drug use is actually done in a somewhat decent manner, however there should be more of it if they wish to remain accurate to 'the scene'. The dialog is what I enjoyed the most about Circuit (guilty pleasure, because I'm a cynical kind of guy). As a result of the writing, this film has become the BEST comedy (intended to be a drama) of all time. Best line of the film: "because *dramatic pause* we are killing ourselves" (as I wonder, did he forget his line? oh wait no, it's going to empower the audience to understand the directors/writers vision --what a joke!) Do yourself a favor and avoid this film at all costs --unless of course you enjoyed watching the world trade center crashing to the ground (this film leaves a similar taste in your mouth).

meerkats A small town gay man move to big city for his inside dream. plot and story is not really important in this film. But Andre Khabazzi as Hector did great acting. He is only one character who can make this film worthy to see. But yes, if you want to see gay film, you can find this interesting. And some other characters just come and go and even unimportant scene we can see in this film. But I enjoy to see this film again, to see Andre Khabazzi or Hector play his role.

sthomasboyer I just saw a screening of this recently. I went with a large group of friends and we discussed it afterward over coffee.We all agreed that it was an erotic pleasure and that it was very intriguing the way the gay lifestyle was manifested in circuit parties. On a personal note, I would say that the essence of the movie was the one brief scene where Hector attempted to make love to himself in the mirror. He keeps snorting drugs and keeps masturbating and eventually gets off, but he hasn't achieved his main goal of loving himself more fully, he has only made a big mess and has to look at himself in the mirror. His lifestyle has left him in shambles and there is a boundary he has created with the drugs that keeps his soul trapped and locks others out.Hector can only redeem himself by sacrificing himself in the end. His soul is finally unleashed when he overdoses in place of Bobby. He is the favorite, beating out the naive John. The friendship between them is the epitome of the clash between two ideals in the gay community: simple innocent beauty vs. the penultimate indulgent behavior. The film style was grainy and pasty, like an old style porn film, which makes it easily dismissable. However, I felt that the film quality was representative of the hazy nebulous reality of the drug-crazed world of the parties.It was a two hour long Public Service Announcement against drugs, which is probably what some people need. The director essentially beats the audience over the head with the evils and dangers of drugs, mixing humor and romance. Wholly depressing, but with a surprising sense of depth.tommie