Amazing concept that becomes your average "serial killer on the loose" plot line.
Some choices and mistakes feel silly and amateurish. At one point protag takes a journey to Chicago. In what appears to be a collar County the road becomes blocked and they must walk the rest of the way. With zero provisions or planning, they somehow hike the minimum ten to twenty miles by nightfall.
Several short scenes take place in alleys. They are supposed to be different streets, but the same alley set is used every time.
At another point, a character should. Be filthy and covered with dirt, yet they and their clothes are totally clean.
Nitpicks. The ghost effects are wonderful, and Dermot Mulroney is eye candy as always.
Oh, and you can tell it's directed by a guy by the costuming choices for Thorne. My eyes rolled hard when one scene had her braless in a see through white tank top, and the director made sure to emphasize that.
Anyway, concept is super cool and could be used to make a less cookie cutter, more interesting movie.
Tore me up. Everything the other reviewers are saying is spot on. But man, I am still feeling the feels.
The man I marry must be willing to sew our child a skin suit from the bodies of dead girls.
Anywho, I loved this! The sepia look was great, and the cinematography gorgeous. At times I could feel the humidity. The leads did a great job. Loved the best friend relationship - you don't often get to see that kind of relationship between women on screen.
The story of What Really Happened was a bit confusing, though it does all make a coherent narrative. I wish we could have had longer to sit with all that knowledge, though.
I had never seen Indonesian puppetry before this and it was amazing!
I grade movies on a strong down curve, so a 6 means it's pretty awesome.
The last couple minutes though...blech. Blatant sequel setup and just superfluous.
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.
The description promises a plot. It lies. At least it features Noomi Rapace's Lisbeth Salander much more than Blumqvist. Of course, for the sake of the non-plot, the movie has to make her completely stupid in one scene in order to further the non-plot.
The movie does look nice, though, and the locations were full of personality and seemed well thought out. All the performances were good. One of the villains makes no sense and reminds me of the kind of henchman in every Bond film.
It's a shame that the film loses the thread. The plot about exposing a sex trafficking ring at the highest echelons of power was promising.
So disappointing! I read the book and enjoyed it a lot. The book seemed tailor made for a film production. But, somehow this adaptation managed to make the source material plodding. It drains the life (haha, no that's not a spoiler) out of the relationship dynamics between Justineau and Melanie, Justineau and the soldier, the scientist and Justineau, etc. All that makes it is a little of the tenderness Justineau has for Melanie. The guy playing the solider did the best he could with a crappy script and pacing.
Having read the book, I was able to fill in some blanks, such as the depth of the scientist's motivations, and the full meaning of the spores.
But I found myself fast forwarding through the second half of the film, stopping when Melanie appeared or when a plot point seemed to be coming up. The movie was that slow. I never fast forward through movies. Usually with a bad movie I stop watching, but with this one I loved the source material so much I was certain there would be great payoff at the end. Instead, the end, while hewing pretty well to the book, still was meh. It just wasn't able to tell the story in a way that felt complete or interesting.
It gets one star for the apocalyptic city/suburban vistas - I LOVED that they had overgrown office-park trees. You know the ones. The fast growing, narrow evergreens they put in office park landscaping. That was a thoughtful touch. It gets the second star for the child actor who played Melanie. She was wonderful at portraying a child not quite human yet also very human, and I hope she does more work.
This is a story about two people trying to get together and forge a relationship against all odds. I confess I stopped watching halfway through because I couldn't get over a huge plot hole. Non-essential spoiler: Matt Damon's character is a public figure, so it would be dead simple for Emily Blunt's character to track him down, yet she doesn't even try.
This could be explained away in the movie's universe, yet the screenplay doesn't bother, choosing instead to forcefully pigeonhole the two characters into rigid gender roles of pursued and pursuer, despite such a passive role being completely out of character for Blunt's outgoing wedding-crasher! The dissonance was too much, so the movie gets a one for basic plot failure.
