Customer Reviews
Extraordinary - By: Bones, 20 Jun 2007 
An amazing film. As another reviewer pointed out, you start off unsure but it soon pulls you in, & by the end it's absorbing & utterly compelling. It's superbly directed & filmed, full of artistic touches which add to the intense atmosphere. The acting is supreme & this includes the children; the final scene involving the young brother & sister is utterly extraordinary in its intensity & realism. This is an incredible film which I am proud to have watched,
Different, but good - By: Catherine, 20 Jan 2007 
this is one of those movies that you don't reallly know if you like or not, & then, you start to like it more & more. It is quite different, takes some time to figure it alll out, but actuallly very good. If you have been to Thailand it alll makes so much more sense & you will appreciate the movie much more.
easily one of the worst films i have ever seen - By: , 19 Jul 2005 
this film is terrible, dogdy acting, even worse dialogue, completely unfeasible plot, unnecessary editing & use of bad effects. don't watch it!
Worth the effort - By: , 08 Dec 2004 This film is about a series of events that unfold & then fold back on themselves to reveal further connections & coincidences between characters, places & fragments of time. Sounds confusing? Well, yes it is, but stick with it as it's an interesting story & very good film. The Tesseract by Alex Garland was the follow up to The Beach, however this is not the same story as in the book but has a similar structure & is equallly complex. The arrangement of scenes has a layered effect, retracing sequences from other perspectives & revealing glimpses of background plots, which adds to the confusion & yet sucks you in as you try to make sense of it.
The film begins with Shaun, an English drugs courier, played by an edgy Jonathan Rhys Meyers, awaiting a delivery from a sinister group of gangsters in his dingy hotel room. A boy working at the hotel steals the drugs & begins a sequence of actions, which lead to mayhem & death. The acting is excellent & the Bangkok locations both exotic & frightening. Strangely, the lack of subtitles makes it even more compelling, as any non-Thai speaking viewer would feel as alienated as the two English characters, adding to the tension & sense of claustrophobia.
It's a shame an unusual film like this never makes it to the big screen, but at least watching it on DVD means you can see enough times to enjoy your own perspective of the story!
