Circle of Eight

2009
3.7| 1h24m| NR| en
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Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place.

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Micitype Pretty Good
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Jamna Only after reading the reviews here , I came to the realization that this is no ordinary film . I wasn't even going to rate it let alone write a review , because I couldn't understand the ending , where did Jessica and Evan go , what happened to others etc etc This movie gives out a message so important , that we have lived our lives far too many times to be making the same mistakes over and over again . But we make them anyway . It's about reincarnation . Our faces change , bodies change , voices change , but our souls have remained the same since thousands of years and probably many more years than that , but we keep making the same mistakes every time . 😔 Because our memories are " erased " and don't know what we were and wrong we did in our previous lives . > All the memories of the previous journeys are gone , all erased . No matter how beautiful or bad the journeys were , we have to start from the beginning , so if you don't wanna start afresh and just want the cycle of life and death to end right here , start to act better , try to clean your heart of all the dirt , start loving with a more open heart , realize the power of 'pure love' . > As Rob Broekhof has written above , in user reviews , in such a marvellous sentence saying "Still, when you finally realize your lesson in life, take that chance! ". So " when you FINALLY come across the lesson of your life , learn the lesson , take the chance to improve yourself " , "Remember! these can be the little things in your daily life , after all , trying to be a better person is a life long learning process " that is what life is really about , TO KEEP IMPROVING OURSELVES , KEEP BETTERING OURSELVES AS HUMAN BEINGS . Changing our attitude , being nicer is the KEY 😊 💖So the souls around you , your destiny , will MAKE YOU DO THE RIGHT THING EVENTUALLY , THEY WILL KEEP PUSHING YOU , THEY WILL KEEP GUIDING YOU , THEY WILL MAKE YOU CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH ,THEY WILL MAKE YOU DO THE RIGHT THING , NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU RUN AWAY FROM THEM , NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU RUN AWAY FROM YOUR DESTINY , THEY WILL KEEP MAKING YOU DO THE RIGHT THING UNTIL YOU BREAK THE CIRCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH AND ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT. BEAUTIFUL , JUST BEAUTIFUL 💖 Many people have written such good reviews that I don't feel like adding new points . I agree to other users , that it's a loop , " what goes around , comes around " .Probably she was supposed to die with her brother , that her fear was real , that both of them will die by drowning because her brother was heavier for her to pull out of the water . But she saved herself and let him drown . Now she was given the second chance that she had always asked for . She got a second chance not once but thousands of time , but kept repeating the same behaviour , the same mistake , having an erased memory of the previous events , she kept leaving Evan to die at the end and all the other souls were stuck like that with her in that building , because the cycle continued because of her " failed attempt " . Everyone remembered the previous events , but Jessica . Finally she did what was right , she did not leave Evan's side and died with him in the fire . SHE BROKE THE CYCLE , FINALLY!!!!! The other souls finally heaved a sign of relief 😊 There might be problems in execution , production , acting and other things of the film , but the concept and the story were superb! :) The message was beautiful . ➡Wish it had a more clear ending , like what happened to Evan and Jessica 💖 finally and what will now become of the other people in the building . >Again , I thank the reviewers who took time to write their thoughts down , you made me understand things better :) , you made me see things better :) , you made me realize an important lesson in life , no matter how far and how fast I run away from my destiny , it's coming towards me to get me with an even greater speed .>WHAT'S MEANT TO BE , WILL BE . IT WILL FIND IT'S WAY .> WE CAN'T RUSH IT , OR RUN AWAY FROM IT . It's a nice film .
glenjordanspangler The Story Jessica (Highsmith) moves from farm country to a bizarre apartment building where the manager's office is the elevator and there only seem to be a handful of tenants. Everyone seems to both offer and expect Too Much Information, and insist that Jessica attend that night's New Year's Eve Party on the roof. Meanwhile, Jessica sees bloody corpses, which she finds a bit disturbing, mostly because they disappear each time she tries to show someone.I just finished watching it, and I don't... I mean, I sort of get the lesson she was supposed to...um, no. And how did they...if they...huh? Why you should see itSo you can explain it to me. Because two female characters exist only for the scene in which they take their shirts off and make out on a broken desk for no discernible reason. Or maybe you can explain that too.Why you shouldn't see itYou'll probably need someone to explain it to you.--from my review at www.1man365movies.com
innocuous 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.
vrgobabe My sister rented this on a whim and we ended up loving it. It takes a little more concentration then some but if you aren't going to pay attention then what's the point in watching a movie anyway. I would recommend this to anyone and I really think you should give it a chance.*don't read after this point of you don't want to know what happens* For all of you who didn't seem to quite grasp it here's my take! It's like groundhogs day in a way, they all keep reliving this day until she sacrifices herself and stays with Evan. Later when they better explain what happened to her brother they show Jessica begging for a second chance to save her brother but he is already dead and there is nothing she can do about it. Staying with Evan is her chance to redeem herself and get over the pain of letting her brother go. Everyone else in the Dante was not suppose to die originally...kind of along the lines of Final Destination in a way so once she stays they are all free form the cycle of reliving their deaths and are able to go on with their lives. Every time Jessica jumps out the window and the police go to aid her after her fall instead of the rest of them who are trapped on the roof. Once she stays the others are able to get help and are saved and she is able to die happy knowing that she has stayed and not left one more person just to save herself.