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Movie Reviews of The Triangle
Movie Review: i got it for Catherine Bell she rocks...the movie justs rolls.
Summary: 4 Stars
The Triangle Starring Catherine Bell:
The Triangle was a Science Fiction mini-series made by the producers of "Independence Day" and "X-Men" exclusivly for the ScFi Channel (Should tell you something right there)
this is a story about the Bermuda Triangle and about one man's quest to find out why his ships are disappearing there and so he goes forth to assemble a team of "experts" to go out and find out the answer to his questions "With absolute proof" and if they accomplish this task they will each get five million dollars each.
so he gathers a team that consist of 4 people: a meteorologist/adventureer, a has-been psychic,a skeptical tabloid reporter and an Oceanography engineer. also there is a character in a side story about a Greenpeace voleenteer who was the only survivor of his sinking boat while battling a whaling ship that also sank that took place in the Triangle due to the Triangle.
the movie was 6 hours long and was in three parts. on the dvd it is four hours and fifteen minutes - but it is still in 3 parts. the opening segment was great. i loved it. i bought the whole thing especially when they kept going to the story of the survivor of the greenpeace boat and his struggles with coping with being the only suvivor and the effect of the Triangle itself had on him. it was a great story, Lou Damond Phillips played him very well. i wish they focused more on him at times throught the movie.
however, as the movie went along the more it was hard to believe. there were some great and sometimes powerful images and scenes throughout the whole thing but as it went along towards the end it was getting to caught up in itself. the writers were too into it and obviously loved the "Nerdy/Geek" Science fiction and wanted all to know it. towards the end you knew who there audience was it was no longer for the causual viewer.
i found the characters, dialogue and even the special effects were cliched.i have seen other movies like this do the same damn thing. they showed me nothing new in the story of the Bermuda Triangle. as a matter of fact i found it offensivly the opposite.
i felt that they could have told a better story with just one or two characters then five. it made no sense. i don't why they needed the tabloid reporter. it wasn't like he was the narrorator of the story.
at first i found the Special effects appropriate and well done. but as the movie went on they seemed like they wanted to do them just because they could and they began to look hokey and cartoonish - very out-of-place as they came to the conclusion. the theories they picked to explain the triangle was at first believable but they kept changing it to where they -i guess- picked all of them and decided to painfully explain them all using polysyllabic words to make it sound intellegent leaving nothing for the audience to figure out for themselves even if we could understand it. and by the way, a lot of what they said in the film was wrong. they said the Alantic ocean had the deepest water. not true. it the pacific. i think around the coral sea. (an example)
but inspite of all this. there are moments that are very good and outside the box of cookie cutter ScFi (not much though) it was well casted. everyone did a good job with what the had to work with and so i will give this a fair to good rating. but i guess it is for people like the Nerdy/Geeky ScFi die-hard fans who more interested in the psedo-science and the hard to believe fiction in their ScFi. or for people like me a Catherine Bell fan. and this was her movie.
Catherine Bell plays a strong woman (on ScFi standards) named Emily Patterson, an Oceanography engineer who was recruited to join the team to figure out the mysteries of the triangle.
Catherine Bell Played her well. She Radiates here. she is the Focual point when ever she's on camera. she breathtaking and she holds her own with the rest of the great cast and even betters them. my favorite scene of hers is the one with her real mother who is not really there but in another timeline with her. (Don't even ask me to explain it.) there sitting in her kitchen, having dinner. the room is lit with candles and thunderstorm is going on outside. it a very conversational scene. they are bonding. Emily ask her mother what her name is then asked her whay she put her up for adoption (in her timeline) her mother, understandly has no idea what she's talking about. i think that was a good piece of acting by catherine. i was moved. it was a sweet scene. well done-paced. it is probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. scenes like that are peppered throughtout the movie. but most come and go and them it get ridicules again.
i think this was Catherines best effort. but it was done on a pretty much wasted movie. but i own the a copy of it. i will probably watch it again. but mainly for CatBell. because of her it is worth it.
Movie Review: The Triangle: Old Equation, New Solution
Summary: 4 Stars
The latest in a growing line of slick miniseries produced by the Sci-Fi Channel, Dean Devlin and Bryan Singer's The Triangle draws from a number of standard sci-fi story elements in an effort to provide an original take on a tired enigma. While the miniseries concerns itself with a mystery long celebrated as unsolvable, The Triangle keeps itself from descending into maddening vagueness by demanding concrete answers from both its characters and its story. That's not to say this story is not enigmatic, but this is a brain-teasing puzzle with a surprising solution. Writer Rockne S. O'Bannon should be commended. The Bermuda Triangle here is more intriguing than it has ever been, kept entertaining by the slow revealing of the shadowy sources of its power. The threat escalates as the film progresses and scientific theories--ranging from wormholes to alternate realities to exotic matter--are blended into an engaging, reality-threatening cataclysm of apocalyptic proportion. At the outset, single ships are threatened but by the time of the paradoxical climax, the globe hangs in the balance. The inevitable time-travel is elegantly handled amidst all of this and the endgame is both intelligent and stunning.
The acting here is above average, too, and each of the leads elevates not only their character's role but the film's believability as well. Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davison, Catherine Bell, and Michael E. Rodgers are excellent as a team of unique experts in unusual fields of study. Keeping the story emotionally grounded is Lou Diamond Phillips, whose individualized subplot allows us to experience the film's reality-altering oddness through the eyes of an everyman. The miniseries is beautifully produced, nicely photographed, and the considerable visual effects are always impressive. More importantly, those effects are used primarily to service the story's intricacies, not as a means of distracting from plot holes. In fact, The Triangle's most serious flaws are those extended scenes echoing science fiction clichés for suspense or drama, chunks of the narrative that will seem all-too familiar--and perhaps, as a result, all-too dull--for fans of the genre. Conspiracy plotlines wear thin too quickly, the quirks of Davison's psychic irritate as they escalate, and Sam Neill's obsessed magnate is instantly forgettable. At those moments when the film is successful, however, it plays off of our curiosity and becomes quite gripping. Viewers have set-out on this sort of strange sea voyage before, but Devlin and Singer manage to make it smart and sexy. The Triangle does make something old new again; the three-part miniseries takes a host of familiar pseudo-scientific theories and science fiction themes and finds a way to recombine them into something that feels, for the most part, fresh.
--Brian A. Dixon
Revelation Magazine
Movie Review: Entertaining diversion from Bryan Singer, Dean Devlin and Rockne O'Bannon
Summary: 4 Stars
Billionaire and shipping mogul Eric Benirall (Sam Neil)contacts four people (Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davidson, Catherine Bell and Michael Rodgers)with expertise in different from psychic ability to weather conditions with one skeptical reporter in the mix to discover why his ships keeping disappearing in the Sargasso Sea or the Bermuda Triangle. When a 747 goes down into the area and they investigate they discover the plane looks like its been submerged for fifty or sixty years. When they come back from the region they begin having strange experiences suggesting that reality has somehow been altered for them.
A fun diversion, "The Triangle" comes with a good pedigree; it's written by Rockne O'Bannon who created "Farscape" based on a story by O'Bannon, Bryan Singer (director of "The X-Men", "Superman Returns" and "The Usual Suspects")and Dean Devlin (co-producer and writer of "Independence Day" and "Stargate"). These three come up with a unique story that is an involving and fascinating puzzle.
Lion's Gate has the mini-series on two discs with a play all feature for the episodes. There's also a promotional featurette that ran on the Sci-Fi Channel included. The extras are disappointing to say the least with no commentary track, no featurettes on the production (outside of the promo one)or the visual effects on the show. The image quality of the series is top notch throughout most of the set although some of the night scenes could have used a bit more contrast.
Overall this is a fine mini-series with some top notch performances that recalls "The X-Files" in terms of the strong plotting and mystery. While the second episode felt stretched a bit the show is an entertaining diversion. This is a terrific set despite the lack of extras and well worth watching if you're a science fiction or fantasy fan.
Movie Review: I gotta say, I really enjoyed this.
Summary: 4 Stars
I know, I know, it's a Sci-Fi (now SyFy) original feature, which immediately calls it's own existence into question, but this is far above the level of "Savage Planet," "Sasquatch Mountain," "Alien Apocalypse," "Manticore" or--dare I say it?--"Mansquito".
But you've got an all-star cast: Eric Stoltz; Bruce Davison; Sam Neill; Lou Diamond Phillips; Charles Martin Smith; and Catherine Bell. You've also got Dean Devlin ("Stargate" [the movie]), Rockne S. O'Bannon ("Farscape") and Bryan Singer ("The Usual Suspects," X-Men movies, etc.) behind the story. And you've got a budget of $22 million (as compared with the usual SyFy budget of about, I believe, $1 million).
The story is engaging, fun and always keeps you guessing, hanging on for more. The only character who doesn't seem to have much of a purpose (i.e. you might not need him) is the one played by Lou Diamond Phillips. But that's not a big deal or distraction.
All in all, a good miniseries with a good storyline, good special effects and good acting. Definitely worth a look.
Movie Review: NO SPACE ALIENS
Summary: 4 Stars
New refreshing look at the Bermuda Triangle that doesn't involve space aliens. The acting was good, but as a movie it is long and boring. As a mini series it works. I had time to grow a beard while watching it. The time shifts seemed to happen to different people at different intervals, and only a handful of people realize it happens. What happened to all those people who come back to life at the end? The story goes on as if it didn't happen. I was waiting for WWII craft to pull into Miami and instead I get to see how wonderful everyone's life has changed. Didn't anyone's life get worse? Never been born maybe?