Highly recommend going in blind for this one. Triangle is definitely smarter than your average psychological mystery thriller. As I started watching I found it incredibly predictable, it's like your always two steps ahead of the movie the whole way through but... the final 15-20 mins were a total surprise I didn't see coming. That surprise elevates the movie as a whole and makes it pretty clever. Quite the guilt trip and I love the metaphors associated with it. Part of it is also left for interpretation which I love. A rewatch would do it good. Decent acting, ugly CGI in some parts but there wasn't that much, I like the setting and great job with the editing.
SPOILERS:
Why was her memory erased at the end?
1. Memory loss is simply the cost of getting a chance to go back to change the outcome. Or a side effect if you will.
OR
2. She died in the car crash and is somehow brought back to be punished by reliving what she did to her son. Some kind of purgatory.
The biggest indicator for me is the taxi driver, he's clearly aware of the situation and how it all works. He's probably the guide/guard/whatever of this purgatory.
But what bugs me is the fact that she wants to relive the whole thing again and that she's given the choice by the taxi driver. Why would she willingly go back to purgatory? Purgatory means you're dead, it's already too late to change things. The only two reasons I see why she would want to do it again is if: 1) She thinks there's a way to change the outcome. Then it's not purgatory but she's still alive and trying to change things or 2) she wants to relive purgatory because she's feeling so guilty she feels she still deserves the punishment.
Do you like movies about time? Do you like so-called 'cerebral' movies? Do you like trying to figure out what's going on? Do you like metaphors? Then you'll probably like this.
This is a violent thriller time loop movie that is just okay, in my opinion. It's got a somewhat complicated plot but is engaging enough that it's worth a watch. Although, I don't know that I'll ever go back to it. Basically, I understood it as a giant metaphor where Jess (the protagonist) is Sisyphus, perpetually rolling the boulder up the hill only for it to fall back to the bottom again. In her case, she keeps going back on the boat, thinking that she can change the outcome of her son's death, only for it to end the same. However, there is some ambiguity here as we don't know how the loop started. What happened with the very first Jess? Without a second Jess, her son doesn't spill the paint, she doesn't change her clothes, and she isn't bludgeoned to death. Does she still get in a car crash? Maybe she loses her temper and accidentally kills her son? Or maybe they both make it to the sailboat and they all die in a real storm? My point is we don't get all the answers.
Overall, I don't regret watching it but don't expect anything different or better than other movies with time-based narratives. Also note that, despite the title, I didn't notice anything to do with the Bermuda Triangle (is that a spoiler?). Maybe the location is supposed to be the Bermuda Triangle? But I didn't notice anything explicit or significant. While we're at it, what was the significance of the ship being from the 1930s? I didn't notice that answered either.
I'm blown away. Many reviews will say this is a time loop movie. (I would think something like should be spoiler tagged, but that's just me.)
It is not a time loop movie!
What I love about Triangle is that everything that explains what's going on is handed to us on a silver platter early on, yet the important bits to fill in the blanks are parceled out to the viewer at a near-perfect pace throughout the film.
The protagonist, Jess, goes for a first date on a boat with another couple, a single woman who the woman in the other couple invited along, and Victor, a young homeless man who the owner lets live on the boat. Aaaand now that I write that, I wonder if there is any deeper significance to those characters.
The film is beautifully shot. Some of the CGI is awful but that doesn't negatively impact the experience. The way it looked just made sense. I got the sense of a story being shown, and no feeling of an auteur showing off. I don't mind artsy films, but this film was well served by being shot straightforwardly...even if it may not seem straightforward at times. You may wonder why the POV of the camera suddenly goes from straight on the characters to looking down in the characters' backs from atop a staircase. Things like that.
The music and sound design were spot on as well. I just liked this movie a lot.
10/10
This Movie hasn't aged a day and still holds as the absolute best of it's unique type.
This movie is super frickin awesome amazing and I've watched so many times over the years I have to be hitting triple numbers, but I will never ever get board of this phenomenal movie.
I've noticed every little hint and change to the point I've matched up the seconds and minutes to certain scenes.
I absolutely love these kind of stories, multiple versions and all that and this movie is definitely right at the top of that genre. This movie is perfection how it brings all the events together like off the charts perfection as in the tv show "LOST"
Perfection. I love how you are left wondering actually how far back does this time loop go, just how many Jess's are there running round in these damn loops.
(Does it go back as far as Jess's birth, Jess's Moms life, further, it's all rather fascinating and I love every single second of it. Was that Death at the end are a Reaper, who knows it's left up to you to decide.
Melissa knocked it out the ball park, I absolutely love her as an actress she's Awesome.
This movie is so clever and so well thought out and they just don't make em like this anymore, which is a damn shame but I am really glad
Stephen King the master himself has turned his talent to recently doing one called
"In The Tall Grass"
Where he definitely took his inspiration from
"Triangle" for his idea of a time warping, mind bending, wormhole falling,
Awesome Multiple realities
Movie experience.
Thank-You Stephen for keeping this extraordinary
concept alive.
I am super pleased to have them both in my collection.
They are the best at what they are and are the only 2 done exceptionally right of their kind.
Review by DeletedBlockedParentSpoilers2016-04-10T15:12:23Z— updated 2016-10-20T17:20:51Z
The idea of the main character getting is some kind of loop hole, be it purgatory, her going crazy, the bermuda triangle or whatever is pretty interesting. For me especially the greek interpretation.
But holy shit was it boring. As soon as you pick up on the idea of the loop there's no reason to keep watching. You already know it'll end on her being stuck in there forever. There's nothing else there to keep it interesting or scary. Most incidents are clear to you one minute before they happen and all you see is things repeating themselves, but it doesn't add anything to the story and then you have to watch scenes multiple times.
The dialogue had some foreshadowing and meaning to it, but the characters were so cliche and at some times just dumb. (ex. watching the storm come and not immediately heading back). The acting was mediocre too. All the main character does is look confused/scared the whole movie, which leads me to my next point.
Being a horror movie it didn't scare me either. All she does is "act" like she's in a horror movie because there's literally nothing to be afraid of in the first 30 min and as soon as you get the idea nothing else happens or gets under your skin. The characters don't matter either, they're just there for the plot (ex the girl who drowns is there so you think it's her blood on the ship, which obviously it isn't) The cliched music cues and sounds were just annoying.
So yeah. The idea was ok, maybe great. I can't really say because the rest was horrible.