Triangle (2009) by Christopher Smith

[cranefly]

[Seen on Kanopy]

Some young friends get together to go sailboating on the high seas.  They do so out of Miami, so the Triangle of the title can be interpreted as the Devil's Triangle.  Or maybe the title refers to the sailboat, which is also named Triangle.  Or maybe it refers to the lover's triangle at the core of the crew.  But that's reaching a bit, because there is no lover's triangle.  That covers the geometry of the movie.  Moving along, they set sail and a storm comes up and tips them over.  Things get worse from there.

There's parts of this movie that I like, and my low rating (2 out of 5) is more due to me being a mule-headed logician.  The central premise has a logic to it that the movie violates time and again (though it's glossed over well enough).  What could be construed as wicked cleverness comes off, to me, as muddled and unworkable.

This might be considered a slight spoiler, just so you know:  A good chunk of this movie is spent on a vacant cruise ship.  I was thinking the covid pandemic would be the perfect time to rent a cruise ship for filming for a decent price.  But this was released in 2009, which predates covid.  So that theory falls through.

Oh, the axe.  It does get minimally used.  I guess it's just a great prop for posters.

[Drunk Monk]

Well played

There’s a critical woman wielded axe in The Villainess too but it doesn’t make the poster so it doesn’t count.

[cranefly]

There’s a critical woman wielded axe in The Villainess too but it doesn’t make the poster so it doesn’t count.

A movie often has half a dozen posters, so I went looking.   I think this is a poster for the movie.

[Drunk Monk]

I stand corrected.