How sad is this?

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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.

If you've just rented the tesseract and are thinking "man oh man, I hope this is a irritatingly jumpy story, full of dislikable characters and shot in the style of a horrible music video" then guess what bub...this could be the best day of your life. Memento - an intelligent script that, despite being initially difficult is soon understood and fun to think about afterward. The Tesseract - someone throws the script into the ceiling fan and films it in the order the pages happen to land. Redeeming features? The annoying kid gets hurt, which I didn't think would happen. Oh, oh, and there's a thai midget, something you don't see every day. Unless you look in grandpa Charlie's 'special' magazine collection. see yas

I've read the novel before knowing that it was already made into film. I was so glad actually. I was also shocked to learn that the plot was set in Thailand where in fact the novel's setting was in Manila, Philippines - that's why the names of some characters were Filipino (Rosa, Lita,...) I'm thinking now that the movie did not fully gave justice to the original novel. Was it because the director and producer were not Filipino or American? I know we've got the choice of selecting the location (just like the THE GREAT RAID movie) but to alter the content of the story is something not proper. What's your comment Mr. Garland? I don't know why you allow such changes? To those who just watched the movie, you may also opt to read the novel and find out the difference - there's got a lot of difference. Bet, you would say that you only wasted your money for the movie.

. . . that word would have to be "ack." Too danged artsy, trying too hard to be "avante garde." Stop action photography, cut frames effects, more darkness than a barrel full of--well, darkness, and the pastiest bunch of people I've seen in a long while. Sad thing is, it's a fair story, with some solidly laudable acting (and some solidly BAD, too).Memento worked because it followed a linear pattern, even if that pattern was reversed. "Tesseract" leaps all over the place, leaving folks with that head scratching, pause-button-hitting sense of "huh?" Sure, you can figure it out, but do you really want to spend the whole movie figuring out time line instead of enjoying the film?Unless that's your sort of gig . . .In all? Ton of potential here, not much of it realized.