The Tangle

I've seen Christopher Soren Kelly before and I know he can act, but based upon this he cannot write or direct anywhere near as well. His acting is not great here either, but he's the only actor who seems like a professional. The others try, but they all seem like amateurs. I thought I had some idea what this was about, but it ends up being just gibberish with long soliloquies of incomprehensible dialogue with a lot of very big words. If they have some meaning, count me out. I only give this 2 stars due to it being an interesting idea to begin with before it gets lost.

Big fan of Christopher Soren Kelly and was really anticipating this movie. This is a dialogue heavy movie but you start out with very little understanding going in. Sure there's explanations in the characters interactions but as good as the writing is, it doesn't feel natural. For example a suspcet is explaning how the Tangle works, to the people who created it. And the conversations are so quick you don't get a chance to absorb exactly what's going on.

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.

A man is shackled to a table and has a very quickfire interrogation by a man and a woman about an event in a park.

Then he's accused of a murder but a telephone call from someone that we don't know and don't hear brings a halt to the interrogation.

25 minutes later the man is now on a telephone repeating non-understandable prose like a modern day Denis Leary.

2 minutes after that I lose patience and turn this crap off.

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.