I've gotten out of the habit of posting my reviews on IMDb, but I'm going to make an exception in this case, for the simple fact I wish someone had warned me off this movie. Based on the monumental praise for this film, I almost purchased it sight unseen.
That would have been a mistake.
Why? The film is well photographed, starts off interestingly, but unfortunately tries to stretch a 40 minute start trek/twilight zone/ground hog day premise, done very poorly, to fit two hours.
It becomes almost from the first, agonizingly predictable. And doesn't try and do anything but show that predictability. It sets up early this idea of a paradox, and spends the rest of the movie not going beyond what quickly becomes a very boring infinity loop.
Luckily I managed, rather than buy this film, to rent it for $2.50.
And even at $2.50, I paid too much. And worse than the money is the 2 hours wasted on this film.
If you think this film is a great mystery, or a masterpiece, or thrilling, or most laughable of all smart and original, then I would say to you, you are very young, and you have seen very little.
The best description of this... exercise of a film.. is it's a 40 minute star trek time paradox episode,mated with a poorly done slasher film, stretched with agonizingly repetitive scenes to squander 2 hours, without really advancing the plot anymore than the first 40 minutes. ((if you just got deja vu, from that paragraph, that's basically all the movie does for its entire length) It may be genre-defying to someone alien to such concepts, but I found it tired. And the lead actresses performance, annoying to the extreme. And her actions brain-dead and moronic. Even before we get to the ship, I'm sick of her doe eyed halting infuriating manner. I mean throughout the entire movie I really get sick of her and her face. I mean real dislike first because of her inaction (inability to speak) then for her stupid actions.
Try something different to break the loop, like maybe jumping off the ship, or shooting yourself (now that may have made me happy for a second. Her character grated on me that much). But no that would require an actual plot, and more than the 40 minutes of redundancy that make up this "film".
But on the positive, it was well shot, the cinematographer the only bit of gold, among all this tin. And it could have been an interesting premise, that a real writer may have made something of, rather than this... waste. The movie effectively ends in the first half hour, and nothing that follows is either original or interesting.
I wanted it badly to get interesting, to get intelligent, but it just doesn't. I can't even work up the interest to say anything more about this film.
For far better movies try just about anything. For a MUCH MUCH MUCH better movie dealing with triangles I recommend the low budget gem THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. And for a far more intriguing thriller, that is actually smart and brilliantly directed and has some boat action, try the brilliant Ibanez Serrador film, WHO CAN KILL A CHILD.
So Triangle gets a huge Not Worth Renting vote from me. F-.
That would have been a mistake.
Why? The film is well photographed, starts off interestingly, but unfortunately tries to stretch a 40 minute start trek/twilight zone/ground hog day premise, done very poorly, to fit two hours.
It becomes almost from the first, agonizingly predictable. And doesn't try and do anything but show that predictability. It sets up early this idea of a paradox, and spends the rest of the movie not going beyond what quickly becomes a very boring infinity loop.
Luckily I managed, rather than buy this film, to rent it for $2.50.
And even at $2.50, I paid too much. And worse than the money is the 2 hours wasted on this film.
If you think this film is a great mystery, or a masterpiece, or thrilling, or most laughable of all smart and original, then I would say to you, you are very young, and you have seen very little.
The best description of this... exercise of a film.. is it's a 40 minute star trek time paradox episode,mated with a poorly done slasher film, stretched with agonizingly repetitive scenes to squander 2 hours, without really advancing the plot anymore than the first 40 minutes. ((if you just got deja vu, from that paragraph, that's basically all the movie does for its entire length) It may be genre-defying to someone alien to such concepts, but I found it tired. And the lead actresses performance, annoying to the extreme. And her actions brain-dead and moronic. Even before we get to the ship, I'm sick of her doe eyed halting infuriating manner. I mean throughout the entire movie I really get sick of her and her face. I mean real dislike first because of her inaction (inability to speak) then for her stupid actions.
Try something different to break the loop, like maybe jumping off the ship, or shooting yourself (now that may have made me happy for a second. Her character grated on me that much). But no that would require an actual plot, and more than the 40 minutes of redundancy that make up this "film".
But on the positive, it was well shot, the cinematographer the only bit of gold, among all this tin. And it could have been an interesting premise, that a real writer may have made something of, rather than this... waste. The movie effectively ends in the first half hour, and nothing that follows is either original or interesting.
I wanted it badly to get interesting, to get intelligent, but it just doesn't. I can't even work up the interest to say anything more about this film.
For far better movies try just about anything. For a MUCH MUCH MUCH better movie dealing with triangles I recommend the low budget gem THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. And for a far more intriguing thriller, that is actually smart and brilliantly directed and has some boat action, try the brilliant Ibanez Serrador film, WHO CAN KILL A CHILD.
So Triangle gets a huge Not Worth Renting vote from me. F-.