The Tesseract (2005)

Memorable, crazy movie

Good movie but grossly overrated

Absolutely Fantastic

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

after gritting my teeth of why i should keep watching this movie all the way through it, when i got to the end all i could think to myself is 1. why would anybody make this pointless of a movie. 2. why did i keep watching this movie. 3. the clichés where terrible.they tried to make this movie artsy, but the conclusion of we don't know what lies ahead was over simplified, and never left me thinking about what it meant, because its just something that you already know and there wasn't any new dilemma added to make the idea more complex.If i were you, and you were thinking about renting this movie, don't. if they show it on TV for free, i'd go out side and do something more constructive with my time.

The book, The Tesseract, is written by Alex Garden (who wrote the incredibly book The Beach, and the screenplay to 28 days later). Although the novel was no where near the level of The Beach, it was still an interesting and gripping book. This film, on the other hand, is w*nk. It cuts out half of the story line, has horrible shots, transitions and effects throughout the whole thing, makes no sense, is extremely disjointed, and has the most wooden acting I've seen since... well probably ever. I am annoyed that I spent good money renting this out, that could've been spent on more beer. If you are tempted to watch this, think twice, put your blockbuster card down, pick your library card up. Trust.PS. By the way for all the people that say my review wasn't helpful, grow up and learn to read

Take "Memento," throw in a little "Oliver Twist," add a little "Taxi Driver," and then have the whole thing directed and edited by severally mentally deranged gerbils on crack and you get this completely awful film.At turns boring, overly bloody, and completely incomprehensible, it's got neither good style nor solid substance. The ending is terrible. The middle is even worse.Pass this one up... until you happen to be a mentally deranged gerbil on crack. Then it might be worth watching.I have to add two more lines of type to meet IMDb's requirements for writing a long-enough review. That's too bad, because there really isn't anything else to say about this lousy movie. Ummmm... so, how are you today? How's the family dog? w00f w00f w00f.

Oxide Pang -- one-half the Pang Brothers -- directs THE TESSERACT, a stylish, hyper-kinetic tale of good folks gone bad -- kinda/sorta -- in this kinda/sorta good-to-great film thriller.By utilizing flashbacks, flashforwards, and ... erm ... flash-sidles (if there can be such a thing), Oxide Pangs crafts his film together more as an experiment in narrative voice, but he pretty much confides in this technique for the involved set-up of these four disparate folks: a drug dealer trying to score a big delivery; a comely psychologist trying to come to terms with the death of her young son; a professional assassin (can you ever have just one?!?!); and a thirteen-year-old thief who misunderstands the concepts of right and wrong. These four folks all converge on a hotel where their lives criss and cross as dramatically staged flybys and near-misses ... but, come the conclusion of the film, they collide with devastating results.In a style very reminiscent of their earlier work, BANGKOK DANGEROUS, half-a-Pang flashes quick visuals with unusual camera angles almost universally throughout TESSERACT. However, some of the visuals pull the viewer away from the story a bit much, so the effectiveness of the technique -- perhaps a further study in it so far as Oxide is concerned -- is arguably debatable ... but the film's atmosphere is not. You can almost smell the decay when you're drenched with the seedier parts of the city, finding yourself quite possibly as repulsed as you are captivated by the events. Think of Oxide Pang's work as very Spielbergian in terms of tone and lighting, but with healthy parts of Scorsese thrown in to propel the narration.Well-paced except for a few awkward moments early one where technique clearly outdistances the story, this slick glossy still makes for quality & interesting viewing ... but, as for shelf life, it might have a short life except for fans of the Pang Brothers and/or experimental films.