When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.
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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Overrated and overhyped
Excellent but underrated film
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
I absolutely hated this movie. In the beginning and up until they climbed aboard the ship, a ship btw way as we the viewers could tell was uninhabited but still it was fairly interesting but then it went downhill. I figured out after not too long, that the Jess character was in a time loop of some kind. Who had apparently never saw the movie, Groundhog Day was my first thought.But really, it was very repetitive with her going through this loop time and again but finally near the end of the movie, she seemed to have beat it and finds herself washed up on a beach, with the outfit she had been wearing when she killed all the people she'd been yachting with, floating nearby.This Jess character also annoyed me. When trying to explain to the others what was happening she never ever used the phrase stuck in a time-loop. She knew that's what was happening, but instead she whined and cried and said things like, "we have to get off this ship" or "you have to kill the others" or "There's two of me, two of you", Or again, "You have to believe me we need to get off this ship!" But she never tried to give them any real explanation as to why.Then she makes it back home and then realized her other self was there. And her other self was not a nice or a good mother, so she kills her, I guess thinking that will break the time loop or something. Then she grabs her son and leaves in her car only to get involved in a car accident.We see her dead on the ground and her little boy also dead, but then we see a taxi driver who says he will give her a ride. She tells him to take her to the harbor.She meets those same people and I kept expecting her to tell them she changed her mind and wasn't going but no way. She gets on the boat with them and that's the end.I mean seriously? So basically she's going to go through the same thing all over again. There's more to the story then this but I'm not going to make this any longer than it already is. Just read the others reviews. All in all, I do not recommend this movie.
I am not easily impressed. Triangle impressed me. I love mysteries, suspense, who-done-its, wtfs. Triangle is a fascinating, scary one brilliantly written, directed and well done, worth numerous viewings.
I understood the movie only after watching it 3-4 times. Phenomenal work by the director, Christopher Smith. The main crux of the movie is to understand that there are two types of Jess that board the ship Aeoles, one with a broken memory and one with memory. That's the only spoiler I would give.Finally I would say this - I will never forget this movie till I die! Really!!
I knew nothing about this movie and went into it blind (which I would recommend everyone to do), and boy, oh boy, did this movie take me on a wild ride. Melissa George is an actress I've always been fond of within the horror genre, so having her play the lead, Jess, immediately meant I was invested from the beginning. Melissa's performance is incredible and although there are a group of secondary characters, she really holds her own in this movie. The supporting cast are adequate but their limited screen-time means I'm unable to formulate any strong opinions on them. What makes this movie so amazing is that it goes in a completely different direction than anyone could predict. What you expect to be a typical slasher movie turns out to be so much more and the events that unfolded beyond the first 20 minutes of the movie completely blew my mind. I was glued to my screen from beginning to end (which is something that very few movies are able to accomplish for me) and after the end credits rolled I found my mind ticking over, dozens of theories and explanations whizzing through my brain as I attempted to fit the pieces of the puzzle together to form one coherent and interconnected story. It saddens me to see this movie gets so many low ratings and bad reviews based on the fact that people misunderstood the plot or failed to recognise the significance of the symbolism. Admittedly, this isn't a movie that's very self-explanatory and it doesn't surprise me that a majority of people fail to understand the ending fully (and I'm speaking as one of those people), but in an odd way that's part of the charm of this movie. It's one that leaves the viewer with so many questions and makes you want to watch it again to see what you missed - which I did, multiple times! It's worth investing some time to research the meaning of it (Peng Yang on YouTube provides a very in-depth analysis) and definitely re-watch it. It's one of those rare movies whereby each time you watch it, it provides a different, interesting experience and you notice little details you didn't before. When you fully understand the story of Triangle, you're able to appreciate how complex and intelligent it is. Every thread of the story weaves together to create the bigger image, but as the viewer you just have to find a way to weave those threads together yourself. It's a story about love, regret, grief, death, life, parenting, friendship, fear and so much more. If you keep an open mind when watching this movie and immerse yourself in the mysteries of it, you'll have a truly fantastic experience. The only reason my rating just fell short of 10 stars is because the ending was unclear to me on my first watch and I believe a movie should be coherent, self-explanatory to an extent that I don't need to research it in order to fully understand it. Other than that this is one of the best movies I've watched in years and I would recommend it to anybody that's a fan of psychological horrors or thrillers.