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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.

This film goes in my box of "What a shame" flicks-- movies that had great potential but the writer / director just blew it by one single but major flaw. In the case of this one, it was the very disappointing "hang in the air" ending. No spoilers, but it spoiled the movie for me.

To be clear: unlike a lot of reviewers, I didn't mind the "scripted, stilted" language. This is a movie set in the future. If there is anything history has shown us, language changes drastically over time. To expect them to speak the same manner in which we speak would be unrealistic. The problem however was the delivery: lines and phases spoken too quickly and without emotion, as if being read off a teleprompter. That's poor directing and acting both.

The story presents a very unique concept. How does one commit a murder in a world where absolutely every detail is recorded, every nanosecond of the day?

Contrary to some vapid claims here, this movie is nothing like The Matrix.. Viewers need to get used to the fact that there are going to be more and more movies about virtual reality... because that field of science is becoming less fictional. Not every movie about virtual worlds is a "rip off" of The Matrix. How many movies have been made about two people falling in love? Yet we still watch romance movies. The entire atmosphere of this movie is different: noir, most of it set in a single room, most of it relying on observation rather than special effects. It's different enough to be interesting... if one can keep up with the Tommy-gun dialog.

What this is... is a pretty decent murder mystery. Plot, mystery, clues, reasonable acting (especially by the primary suspect). What it doesn't have is a well-thought-out ending... and for that inexcusable blunder I give it 4 stars. There's little more that I hate in a movie that for it to string people along for the entire film, then drop the plot on their laps, leaving them to design their own conclusion. Makes one want to taser the director in the tenders, it does.

If someone wishes to watch this, I'd recommend doing so simply for the unusual style of the film. You'll possibly enjoy 99.5% of the film... right down to the last blundering minute. Then maybe not so much. That's the smack, Jack.

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'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.

The premise looked interesting, but within the first 5 minutes I was annoyed by the dialogue and the pretentiousness of the acting. Within about 15 minutes I had solved the murder mystery. Then I got bored with the poetry that served no purpose in the plot and I fell asleep and woke up towards end, just in time for some more poetry and the revelation the the murder was indeed just as I had predicted 15 minutes in.

The three stars are for the idea and the acting of the guy who plays Carter. The rest of it is a big nope.

That said, my husband liked it, so like always, it comes down to taste.

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.

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.

Low budget lyrical futuristic mystery was directed by Christopher Soren Kelly as well as it could be with all the limitations imposed during the production, and the main reason for that success is the bravery of the director and the Agatha Christie type screenplay (written and acted by the same guy who directed it) which was moving with a perfect pace unwinding the story.

I noticed the low scores for it, but I guess this is from people who are watching movies to relax... this is definitely not a film for that type of audience! If you are kind of a philosopher, you love theatre and want to discuss films after watching it, I will recommend it wholeheartedly.

Reading the IMDB description got me excited to watch this movie. But that was to be the the most exciting thing about it. The viewer is invited to imagine the purported future through long boring self indulgent soliloquys, and that is about the extent of it. There are very few scenes which take place outside one room. Do not expect any high octane action thrills and stunts or green screen special effects. The movie is stilted and turgid and brings a whole new meaning to tedium. If you fall asleep rest assured your time will have been better spent.

This movie does with dialog what other sci-fi movies try (and mostly fail) to do with CGI. Of all the post singularity movies this is the most successful in fleshing out a believable world and then telling a story within that universe.

Don't watch when you are tired as this will grab your full attention.

Wasnt sure what to expect going in to this, from the reviews it seems it is one of those films that you either love or hate, as it is, I quite enjoyed it. Very small cast with most of the film taking place in one room but think it was a well told story with some good performances.

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.

The concept is great, acting is good, but the dialog is way over the top, a dialog which keep circling round and round around the same subject, and after a few circles, it becomes truly annoying. I stopped watching after 10 minutes. Maybe better editing would have rendered this movie more attractive.

Maybe the people who like this show, no insult intended, are just smarter than me. For me, though, it was so incomprehensible during the first scene and dialogue, I wanted to smack the guy in the suit and tell him to shut up. I know...but it, for me, was the only show I have ever tried to watch that I could just turned me off so quickly. Don't misunderstand me, I love all kinds of movies, especially science fiction, so I was pretty excited to watch this. I would not recommend this.

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

So noir! And it didn't draw me in. Sorry, not for me.

No point trying to follow what's going on in this glorious mess, Just enjoy the painful wannabe Tarantino chit-chat and have some snacks. There are definitely some highlights but in general relatively low expectations will be well met, perhaps even exceeded.

Horrible writing , literally a line in the movie " your face is gonna squawk so you better talk " I couldn't get past this child like writing.

As my friend the Captain Obvious likes to say : The Tangle is not for everyone. So maybe it's not for you either. But guess what ? I don't care, because I'm a selfish person (I'm french, by the way, this explains a lot) and I trully loved this movie from the beginning to the end. I wish from the bottom of my heart that you'll be able to enjoy it as much as I do. But if you don't, don't blame the movie, because it's up to you and you alone to love it or hate it. Or, simply, admit it's good, but not for you.

If you can stand the idea of a frontal collision between film noir and poetry, Sci-Fi and retro vibe, nanobots and anachronism, sweet talk, loud talk, coffee black and a cloud of milk ; if you are able to embrace novelty without question, or rejection, or reluctance, you may love the Tangle, because the movie is so much more than the sum of its parts. It's something like Philip K. Dick trying to write an experimental play (he would have loved it, sure thing).

Actors are brilliants, dialogues are so great they get surreal at times, story is full of twists and turns, but that's not really the point because humanity prevails in all its splendor and shame.

Sure, they speak really, really quick. But hey ! If a froggy like me managed to understand the movie without subtitles, you sure have nothing to complain about.

Yes, there are no gunfights. No car chase. No martials arts. No flying super heroes. No weird camera moves.

But there's much more than that.

There's this tiny miraculous thing my people call "Grand Cinéma".

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 movie is painful to watch. Sure, it's in the future so I can understand if they want to add some strange future language that we don't understand because we aren't from that timeframe. But come on! The entire movie is just people babbling nonsense to each other. It's unwatchable.

If you got rid of all the dialogue this would probably be a good movie, Just for the cinematography and soundtrack. Trying to throw to much slang, retro jargon and worthless pseudopoetry.