Michel_spain
At the beginning of the film one can read:"The Tesseract is a hypercube unraveled." "When a square unravels to a live, two dimensions become one." "When a cube unravels to a cross, three dimensions become two." "When a hypercube unravels to the tesseract, four dimensions become three."In fact the tesseract is a 4 dimensional cube (term by Charles Howard Hinton, mathematician and science fiction writer) and this concept tries to introduce us into more than three dimensions.This movie is a strange mixture of Matrix (special effects), Kill Bill (slow camera scenes with Tomoyasu Hotei's "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" style) and Memento (playing with time, backward and forward). Four strange and different characters reunited in a hotel of Bangkok with nothing in common. Really nothing in common? The first minutes promise an excellent film that does not convince in any moment. It's a pity, could have been magnificent.
zzz05
yeah, I guess this is not a movie for those who just need to chill out. In fact, this meets the mccluhan definition of cool media, i.e. one that requires you to work to interpret it. sort of like life. so, take a combination of rashomon, memento, and your favorite film noir set in southeast asia and there you have it. confusing at first, but you begin to follow it more as you accumulate information. there's a slight "twist ending" which isn't really necessary; besides, I saw it coming a mile away.btw: (possible spoiler):one of the possible signs of a good movie: you can't count on all the protagonists making it out alive.
rodneywilson
Hollywood could take some pointers from this film.If you like different, this film you will love. Although a bit hard to follow at times and slow in some sections. This film is ,a for sure watch. Action similar to the matrix but more real and adds greatly to the creativity of this film.In a nut shell it show cases the finality of cause and effect in an action packed, Bangkok themed , drug lord filled,children wonderfully included, foreign but domestic , thought provoking film. Oh and the most creatively shot sex scene you'll ever have the pleasure of watching.This one I will for sure give a second watch and there are not a lot of films made today that rate that well.
Thriceshy
. . . that word would have to be "ack." Too danged artsy, trying too hard to be "avante garde." Stop action photography, cut frames effects, more darkness than a barrel full of--well, darkness, and the pastiest bunch of people I've seen in a long while. Sad thing is, it's a fair story, with some solidly laudable acting (and some solidly BAD, too).Memento worked because it followed a linear pattern, even if that pattern was reversed. "Tesseract" leaps all over the place, leaving folks with that head scratching, pause-button-hitting sense of "huh?" Sure, you can figure it out, but do you really want to spend the whole movie figuring out time line instead of enjoying the film?Unless that's your sort of gig . . .In all? Ton of potential here, not much of it realized.
AD
