15 years, 6 months ago

Triangle, Christopher Smith, 99 mins, (15)

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A freak thunderstorm capsizes their boat, and the survivors clamber to safety aboard a passing cruise liner. Gradually, the film atomises into a sort of supernatural puzzle, with characters doubling and then multipying as Jess realises the time lock she's trapped within. The writer-director Christopher Smith perhaps had several films in mind here – one of them surely The Man Who Haunted Himself with Roger Moore, another that conundrum of eternal returns, Groundhog Day – though you feel the film's tension has been fatally holed by the ever-duplicating mystery plot.

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