Tangled

Rating:
Summary: Mediocre College Love Triangle Thriller
Review: I really like Shawn Hatosy, so I really wanted to like this movie; unfortunately, I was very disappointed. In essence, "Tangled" is yet another college love triangle. David (Shawn Hatosy) is in love with his best friend, Jen (Rachael Leigh Cook), but she falls for one of David's friends, Alan (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). David is the protypical "nice" guy, who Jen considers to be just a friend. David's jealousy flairs when she falls for Alan, who may be just a touch insane. The story is told in flash-back after David is found beaten in the woods. The movie tells of the beginnings of these relationships, as well as the inevitable disintegration.

On the plus side, Shawn Hatosy is solid in the lead and likeable. The movie also features some good music and decent cinematography. Unfortunately, Rachael Leigh Cook comes across as a vapid ditz, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers engages in some serious scenery-chewing (as does Lorraine Bracco, slumming from the "Sopranos"). The plot is not particularly believable and tries too hard to have a supposedly "shocking" resolution (which is pretty predictable). I also found that I didn't even remotely care about the characters or what happened to them. Recommended only for fans of Shawn Hatosy and/or tepid romance thrillers.

Rating:
Summary: Mediocre College Love Triangle Thriller
Review: I really like Shawn Hatosy, so I really wanted to like this movie; unfortunately, I was very disappointed. In essence, "Tangled" is yet another college love triangle. David (Shawn Hatosy) is in love with his best friend, Jen (Rachael Leigh Cook), but she falls for one of David's friends, Alan (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). David is the protypical "nice" guy, who Jen considers to be just a friend. David's jealousy flairs when she falls for Alan, who may be just a touch insane. The story is told in flash-back after David is found beaten in the woods. The movie tells of the beginnings of these relationships, as well as the inevitable disintegration.

On the plus side, Shawn Hatosy is solid in the lead and likeable. The movie also features some good music and decent cinematography. Unfortunately, Rachael Leigh Cook comes across as a vapid ditz, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers engages in some serious scenery-chewing (as does Lorraine Bracco, slumming from the "Sopranos"). The plot is not particularly believable and tries too hard to have a supposedly "shocking" resolution (which is pretty predictable). I also found that I didn't even remotely care about the characters or what happened to them. Recommended only for fans of Shawn Hatosy and/or tepid romance thrillers.

Rating:
Summary: Tangled
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! I am not going to tell you the whole movie such like I have already read since this is a review not a summary. Tangled is a perfect name for this movie, because it describes all three charecters' feelings and paths. I don't think it is made to leave you lost, I think it is made to leave you surprised. It's a love story, a thriller, and a triangular pretzel!

Rating:
Summary: Tangled
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! I am not going to tell you the whole movie such like I have already read since this is a review not a summary. Tangled is a perfect name for this movie, because it describes all three charecters' feelings and paths. I don't think it is made to leave you lost, I think it is made to leave you surprised. It's a love story, a thriller, and a triangular pretzel!

Rating:
Summary: Tangled movie
Review: Rachael Leigh Cook stars and looks amazing in this disappointing movie.

Rachael Leigh Cook's character is torn between her male best friend who has feelings for her, and her boyfriend who is slightly off the rails. We begin with the best friend in hospital and he is being questioned by a detective played by Lorraine Bracco. Via the bestfriend's flashbacks which may or may not be true, the detective has to piece together what happened between the girl, the best friend and the boyfriend.

The quality of filming isn't too bad in itself but there just isn't enough substance to the story. I suggest you buy "Tangled" if you are a Rachael Leigh Cook fan, but if not, you're not gonna exactly be heartbroken if you don't have this on your DVD shelf.

I'm not saying it's terrible- it just could have been so much better.

Rating:
Summary: COMPLEX
Review: TANGLED IS ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD MOVIE. YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION OR YOU'LL GET LOST IN THE PLOT BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT WAS A GREAT MOVIE.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent best platinum rated number one superb
Review: This cinema movie film is best good cinema event occurrence all time ever!

Rating:
Summary: Best Friends make the worst enemies
Review: This was a very good movie. I think it was meant to have it so in the end you'd get lost and believe me, I did. Its about three friends, Jenny, David, and Allen. David and Jenny are best friends and live right across from eachother. One day, Jenny meets Davids other best friend Allen. THat's where the trouble starts. Jenny and Allen fall in love while David has warned Jenny to take it slow with Allen because he's dangerous. Jenny doesn't listen. This makes David mad. In the mean time, David begins going out with this blonde girl. Jenny's father comes to town and says he wants to have dinner with her. Jenny doesn't want to go alone, but Allen doesn't feel comfortable going, so DAvid says he'll go with her. THey wait at the resturaunt for a long time and her dad never shows up so they leave. When they get home, David makes a move on Jenny. Jenny is infuriated and stormes in the house. When she enters her and Allens room, Allens is having sex with Davids current girlfriend. Jenny immediatly runs in her room and ruins everything Allen ever touched. David comes to console her. That night, while Jenny's sleeping, a stone comes in her window. It's a stone that Allen kept froma trip they went on. Jenny, terrified, runs to Davids house and says, "What is his fucking problem. Can I stay". of course David lets her stay. The next day, Jenny is irritated because David has hidden her ciggarettes. She gets terribley frustrated and yells at David, who is making her breakfast. DAvid gets her ciggarettes out of the drawer and sees a picture of Jenny aand Allen, then he knows that she still loves Allen. David leaves the house. When he comes back... well, him and Jenny get kindaped and that's all I'm going to tell you. You'll have to watch the movie.

Rating:
Summary: Best Friends make the worst enemies
Review: This was a very good movie. I think it was meant to have it so in the end you'd get lost and believe me, I did. Its about three friends, Jenny, David, and Allen. David and Jenny are best friends and live right across from eachother. One day, Jenny meets Davids other best friend Allen. THat's where the trouble starts. Jenny and Allen fall in love while David has warned Jenny to take it slow with Allen because he's dangerous. Jenny doesn't listen. This makes David mad. In the mean time, David begins going out with this blonde girl. Jenny's father comes to town and says he wants to have dinner with her. Jenny doesn't want to go alone, but Allen doesn't feel comfortable going, so DAvid says he'll go with her. THey wait at the resturaunt for a long time and her dad never shows up so they leave. When they get home, David makes a move on Jenny. Jenny is infuriated and stormes in the house. When she enters her and Allens room, Allens is having sex with Davids current girlfriend. Jenny immediatly runs in her room and ruins everything Allen ever touched. David comes to console her. That night, while Jenny's sleeping, a stone comes in her window. It's a stone that Allen kept froma trip they went on. Jenny, terrified, runs to Davids house and says, "What is his fucking problem. Can I stay". of course David lets her stay. The next day, Jenny is irritated because David has hidden her ciggarettes. She gets terribley frustrated and yells at David, who is making her breakfast. DAvid gets her ciggarettes out of the drawer and sees a picture of Jenny aand Allen, then he knows that she still loves Allen. David leaves the house. When he comes back... well, him and Jenny get kindaped and that's all I'm going to tell you. You'll have to watch the movie.

Rating:
Summary: Not Good: Very Weak and Inept as Love Story or as Thriller
Review: Though I like Rachel Leigh Cook, and like her turn as a sulky (but really sweet) girl in 'She's All That,' and love to see her in anywhere you name it, 'Tangled' is a wrong choice. As a thriller, it is not intriguing; as a love story, it is too familiar. And the story is, as the film says, too tangled to take it seriously.

It is about a love-triangle that got tangled -- David (Shawn Hatsey), Alan (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and Jenny (Rachel Leigh Cook), all juniors at a college. Jenny and David are seeing each other when Alan, handsome and reckless, steps into their college life out of the blue. Quiet boy David (who studies poetry) and Alan were in fact friends when much younger, but because of some incidents in the past, their relations was an awkward one. And because of Jenny's ambiguous attitudes to Alan, and Alan's seductive attitudes to Jenny, things get more complicated, and more dangerous.

That's what the opening of the film implies, by the choppy shots of flashbacks. The film follows the memories of David, who, now hospitalized after some (still unknown) terrible accident, recounts his story before the investigator Lorraine Bracco. So, here, the film also tries to give a twist to the otherwise mundane story, using flashbacks that slowly reveals the key events in the past.

The original intention is good, and there is a decent film buried behind the film (which I am afraid no one in English-speaking coutries have seen in theater). There are some good shots that suggest the emotional tense between the characters. And Rachel Leigh Cook is as sweet as before, and sexy at times.

But, unbelievably, the film takes almost one hour to explain the relations between the three, which is not particularly original. And after that, it drifts into the revelation of the facts, in the style that faintly resembles 'Rashomon.' But what can you do in thirty minutes with that format when you need more time to present the shifting viewpoints that challenge our perception of reality?

My overall reaction to 'Tangled' was like -- What happened to RLC? She is as busy as before, as far as I can see her filmography on internet, but living in Japan, I hear about less and less. Please, no more this, or 'Get Carter' or 'Anti-Trust.'

By the way, Estella Warren appears, but her role is very small, and her turn is not very outstanding. Sorry.