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Three giants of Hong Kong crime cinema - Tsui Hark (Seven Swords), Ringo Lam (City on Fire), and Johnnie To (Election) - join forces to create Triangle. Longtime friends Bo-Sam, Fai, and Mok contend with criminal hoods, a corrupt cop, and an unfaithful wife in their quest to unearth a treasure buried beneath the Hong Kong legislative building. The film's title refers to both the acclaimed trio of filmmakers and to the uneasy brotherhood of the film's three central characters. A lively action-thriller that brings together three of Hong Kong's greatest directing stylists.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The first thing that grabs you about this movie is that it has 3 directors all well-renowned in their own-right(especially Tsui Hark). The story unfolds in 3 thirty minute segments.
It is about 3 guys Fei, Sam and Mok who are in desperate need of some cash. One day they are approached by a myseterious man and he sends them on a path to so-called riches of buried treasure.
Anyway, this all plays out well, but somewhere in-between it gets a little abstract. The story itself is simple, but it never really grabbed my attention. There's just no development or focus to what is going on or the characters involved. I mean the 3 friends hardly know each other at all. They have nothing in common outside of money worries and none of them grabbed me as one to root for. Their relationships are never explored or expanded and frankly I didn't really care about them. The story is a "mish-mash". It goes from a treasure hunt to a gangster movie, to running over pedestrians, to one of the guy's wife having an affair with a dodgy cop. None of this, is ever explored in detail.
Triangle's biggest problem lies here-in. Far too much going on within each character's set up, that you just don't know what to feel about it. In my first run through of the movie I didn't even understand how I came to the closing scene (I had to watch it again to try and comprehend what was going on).
I sometimes suspect maybe the directors were just having a laugh while making this movie and at times I felt I must have missed the plot altogether.
The movie was just bizarre, I watch allot of Hong Kong cinema and this sits there in my top ten list of bizarre movies. The standoff near the end is just loony.
It may seem that I didn't understand the movie, but I did! I know what happened, understood the plot and events but what all of it meant is a mystery to me.
It's an okay movie, but don't expect to understand it in your first sitting...
I would say it's a the "Bermuda Triangle" of movies, you know the plot, but it is possible you'll get lost in the movie as well.
It is about 3 guys Fei, Sam and Mok who are in desperate need of some cash. One day they are approached by a myseterious man and he sends them on a path to so-called riches of buried treasure.
Anyway, this all plays out well, but somewhere in-between it gets a little abstract. The story itself is simple, but it never really grabbed my attention. There's just no development or focus to what is going on or the characters involved. I mean the 3 friends hardly know each other at all. They have nothing in common outside of money worries and none of them grabbed me as one to root for. Their relationships are never explored or expanded and frankly I didn't really care about them. The story is a "mish-mash". It goes from a treasure hunt to a gangster movie, to running over pedestrians, to one of the guy's wife having an affair with a dodgy cop. None of this, is ever explored in detail.
Triangle's biggest problem lies here-in. Far too much going on within each character's set up, that you just don't know what to feel about it. In my first run through of the movie I didn't even understand how I came to the closing scene (I had to watch it again to try and comprehend what was going on).
I sometimes suspect maybe the directors were just having a laugh while making this movie and at times I felt I must have missed the plot altogether.
The movie was just bizarre, I watch allot of Hong Kong cinema and this sits there in my top ten list of bizarre movies. The standoff near the end is just loony.
It may seem that I didn't understand the movie, but I did! I know what happened, understood the plot and events but what all of it meant is a mystery to me.
It's an okay movie, but don't expect to understand it in your first sitting...
I would say it's a the "Bermuda Triangle" of movies, you know the plot, but it is possible you'll get lost in the movie as well.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Three directors, three main characters, lots of tangents, oddness, and unpredictability. If you don't keep your eye on the ball you might lose the thread of the game. If this film were a mathematical equation it would be a fussy one. The script is all over the place, along with the characters and a bunch of incidentals who muddy things further. The core of the matter is pretty straightforward, but nipping out to put the kettle on or get a beer could result in future confusion. But what of the film? The direction is mosaic, the acting sound, the conflict of ideas entertaining, the action frequent (bit too bluntly violent for a 12 certificate?), the camera work and atmospherics adequate, the whole thing more barking than a basket of badgers. It has a certain originality, so I'd recommend it for something different.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Triangle is a well-plotted film with a habit of turning coincidence into excitement. Three chums are given a chance to acquire a treasure but then must escape gangsters, a cheating wife, a crooked policeman and an honest policeman. The result is one to keep you awake until the final moment when it all comes together; until then you do need to concentrate on the plot.
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