Product: Triangle (2009)
Rating: 4.0
Sisiyphus reinvented
I like the types of movies you have to bend your head around. This is just such a movie and I can barely say enough good about it. The plot involves a time loop which the main character is stuck in yet also witnesses as a 3rd party. As the same events unfold a couple of times she figures out (or thinks she figures out) how to break the loop and get her normal life back.As others have pointed out, this is rather like the movie Timecrimes, but I found this infinitely better. In Timecrimes, the main character is involved and can break the loop easily but doesn't. Here, the main character wants to break the loop but cannot.These types of movies seem impossible to me to write, but this script makes it look almost easy. All the scenes are revisited (often more than once) and each revisiting helps pull the entire thing tighter and make it all the more understandable. And scenes you thought were "throwaway" or merely exposition all come back to have an integral part in the plot. These types of movies can be a chore to follow because the plot is always bending back on itself, but again, here I never once found myself scratching my head trying to figure things out. Everything happened in a way where the plot unfolded like a flower.Melissa George was the only actor recognizable to me and she does a very good job. The rest of the cast does a decent enough job, but no one stuck out as being particularly bad or good.The ending is also way cool. It's like a dream within a dream, or in this case, a loop within a loop. The viewer is lulled into a sense of ending only to be be treated to a rather disturbing reality.This is just a really cool flick with adroit direction, good sound, editing and music score. If you're looking for something way off center, give this a shot. It's well worth your time investment.