The Tangle

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.

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

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.

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.

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.