The Triangle (2005)

Strange phenomena has been occurring in the Sargasso Sea or the Bermuda Triangle since early seafaring. Columbus in 1492 encounters a modern ship and loses 2 men in a strange event. In the present, ship magnate Eric Benerall (Sam Neill) finds those two men and his own men dead on one of his ships. He recruits certain experts to solve the mystery for $5 million each. Howard Thomas (Eric Stoltz) is a reporter investigating Triangle cases. Emily Patterson (Catherine Bell) is a skilled engineer. Stan Lathem (Bruce Davison) is a psychic. Bruce Geller (Michael E. Rodgers) is an extreme adventurer. Meeno Paloma (Lou Diamond Phillips) leads a Greenpeace expedition against whalers when giant bubbles take down the whaling ship and the Greenpeace boat. Meeno is the sole survivor but he returns to find the world oddly different.This is a 3 part Sci-Fi mini-series. I really like part one as the mystery gets laid out. The production is pretty good for a TV show. It's set up for something interesting. The second part starts to show some cracks. I don't like some of the turns with the mystery. I don't care about Lou Diamond Phillips' part of the story. I also don't like the team being split up. Part three does a competent job wrapping the story up. This TV series starts out strong but loses some of its steam.

It seems as if the movie was going on and as the plot got deeper and deeper, the finally realized, "oh we need an ending". We wont really explain anything but it will be one of those movies that deal with time, not like back to the future where it made sense and was understandable, no no, now a movie making sense is just too logical for most movie goers. OK we are going to go into hours of excruciating detail, really only address a small part of that, and when the film in the camera is running low..we will just end it. All the movie began all right which is why it got 4/10 for me, but about halfway they were still digging deeper into minutia, not really making much sense of anything, and the last 15 minutes of the movie appear to have been written while the writer was sitting on a toilet seat, is was just so ramshackle,

When viewing films of this type, the viewer automatically must accept a certain amount of "mumbo-jumbo". Given that this program is entitled "The Triangle", the normally skeptical viewer must be willing to suspend a great deal of disbelief. Not a problem. But the great weakness of this film is asking the viewer to basically take their disbelief and not only suspend it but throw if off the top of the highest peak in the Rocky Mountain Range.A few examples of "reasonable" suspensions of said beliefs:1. The Bermuda Triangle is really a place where ships and planes disappear.(Not true but I'm okay assuming this for the sake of an interesting film)2. The reason for the triangle has something to do with wormholes and "exotic material". (A hokey but acceptable science fiction premise)3. The disruptions in the triangle result in shifts in universe that are unexpected. (One of the more interesting aspects of the film. Okay with me!)Then we have some of the less reasonable suspensions:1. A multi-millionaire selects a team of four individuals (a journalist, a psychic, a meteorologist and an oceanographer) to solve the mystery of the Triangle. Oh, and they can't use any outside people. Oh, and they'll each get $5 million dollars if they're successful. AND they have to start right away. (My suspensometer is now starting to go "sproing!")2. Each individual has some tragic or sad backstory that manifests itself. (Does anyone have a normal life in these movies?)3. The meteorologist is a gung-ho professor who lives in an academic world where he can chuck all of his research and classes for an undetermined amount of time by having graduate students and undergraduates students "cover" for him. (You have got to be kidding!) 4. The psychic and journalist frequently engage in tepid debates about empirical vs.supernatural evidence. (Will these films EVER bother to actually have an interesting debate about this issue? It's worth discussing but, geez, do we have to trot out the old "there are things that science just can't understand because it's too close-minded to." Sorry it just burns me up that that is the level of sophistication that screenwriters can muster.)That's not to say that there aren't some scenes that are fairly interesting and even poignant. Catherine Bell's interaction with her birth mother in the alternate universe is quite affecting as is Lou Diamond Phillips' reactions to constant shifts in his family makeup. And yes, I must confess to finding a tear in my jaded eye when, at the end, Phillips turns over in his bed to see his youngest son lying next to him asleep. (However, what was the deal with Phillips' shower? What? In some alternate universe, the plumbing goes bad?)Then the big eye roller, they find out that the reason for the problem is related to "The Philadelphia Experiment" (Brother!) and a secret government project run by the Navy (What? The CIA too busy?) for forty years. (Which is, of course, why we've had a federal deficit!)Bottom line: A few good thing don't really add up to a terrific film. But it's an okay time waster.

Personal like science fiction film very much . i'm interested in mysterious thing particularly. This slice give person of the first impression have a lot of professional words,Three coda feelings of the film end have no surprised and pleased , Total to say still quite good of . Seeing this film through, feeling seem world is really such of, getting up every in the morning, all having already grown a matter to have ever acquaint with of the felling feel seem to experience this day.Personal evaluation :A quite good film, know nothing about a wave to take a lot of time .