The Tangle

Pretentious romantic murder mystery attempting to fuse classic private dick style Sam Spade interrogation with nanobot technology, pseudo intellectual poetry readings, and a freaky looking woman's head in a snow globe that allows the elite 'untangled' to measure eye movements remotely and see every movement of their suspect except during the murder because there are safe spaces which the technology can't penetrate. It's as if they changed the technology each time it contradicted the premise of the story. Acting was fine but story just average and ruined by their attempt to make it appear the movie is an intellectual art film for only the most discerning of idiot savants.

I enjoyed watching Christopher Soren Kelly, in Infinity Chamber. And I do enjoy watching a good movie that makes me think. This movie did give that to me, to a point. And it had the potential to be a great movie. But it dropped the ball. And seem to make a couple of attempted to recover, but then it would shoot itself in the foot again.

First and foremost. There was too much explaining of what the tangle was and does. When it could have been covered by either a star wars style crawl text. Or a brief video lead up, of the creation and release of the tangle. Showing all the creators rejoicing over it. With a lead up like that, it could have helped show some of the emotional turmoil that Edward was going through. Instead we see Edward wiping something out of his eyes.

When it came to the acting, you either got the film version on a monotone. Or you get the equivalent of a drama queen. So over the top and unnecessary. With Christopher Soren Kelly and Jessica Graham, staring in a number of projects together. You would have expect a much better onscreen chemistry. But it felt similar to a 6th grade play. Where no one wanted to touch a person of the opposite sex.

It is not a completely horrible movie. But it is definitely a film that I will only watch once.

This was senseless and boring, often aggravating to watch at times.

Well this was a disappointment. I was expecting a good movie, the story seemed interesting, and to be honest it had a lot of potential, but the execution was really poor. I don't know what writer/director Christopher Soren Kelly was thinking whilst making this movie but it was for sure not going to be pleasant to watch for a lot of people. The dialogues are highly irritating, most of the time it's just gibberish, a language nobody "normal" speaks. I think he wanted to come over as fancy and innovative and it boomeranged right in his face. Because the plot was promising, I'm sure you could make a good sci-fi movie with that story, but it's just not The Tangle. The cast was also not very convincing in their roles. Again I'm sure they could do much better, but now it looked like they rehearsed their lines without understanding anything they're talking about. The moments of poetry were also very annoying to watch. The cinematography wasn't that great either. I'm searching to write anything good about this movie but beside a promising story I can't see anything. Don't waste your time with this one.

I'll start by saying I love thought-provoking intelligent sci-fi. However this is not that. It is only dressed up as that. It's pretentious, cheap and boring. I honestly can't think of anything positive to say about this film other than the noir detective element is nice. Everything else was a waste of my time.