I rather enjoyed the comments of people who didn't like, or didn't "get" The Tesseract and acted irritated as if someone forced them to watch it.
From the introduction - the explanation of what a Tesseract is - and how it can devolve to simpler elements you know this will be a different movie. If you can't deal with a different type of movie - stick to the movies you like - the formula junk Hollywood cranks out.
How different was The Tesseract? Enough. Not over the top as other people have suggested if they'd opened their minds to it and not become judgemental. The flexible time-line takes a bit of getting used to and that's OK - I got to learn about the characters by while figuring out the time-line. Jumping ahead, backward and sideways? Yes - it does - but it works wonderfully well once you simply flow with it.
SPOILER..................... The essence of the movie *is* the simplification - the devolution of a Tesseract to a single-dimension item - a line if you will. All four major characters are as Saskia Reeves explained to Alexander Rendel "We are the same" - and in the end they were. Each was damaged in some way and destined for a bad end and in that the movie didn't disappoint at all.
Fate played out - leaving the question if one thing happened differently - what would the ending be?
I've got to watch it again. And not many movies get that treatment.
From the introduction - the explanation of what a Tesseract is - and how it can devolve to simpler elements you know this will be a different movie. If you can't deal with a different type of movie - stick to the movies you like - the formula junk Hollywood cranks out.
How different was The Tesseract? Enough. Not over the top as other people have suggested if they'd opened their minds to it and not become judgemental. The flexible time-line takes a bit of getting used to and that's OK - I got to learn about the characters by while figuring out the time-line. Jumping ahead, backward and sideways? Yes - it does - but it works wonderfully well once you simply flow with it.
SPOILER..................... The essence of the movie *is* the simplification - the devolution of a Tesseract to a single-dimension item - a line if you will. All four major characters are as Saskia Reeves explained to Alexander Rendel "We are the same" - and in the end they were. Each was damaged in some way and destined for a bad end and in that the movie didn't disappoint at all.
Fate played out - leaving the question if one thing happened differently - what would the ending be?
I've got to watch it again. And not many movies get that treatment.