not horrible nor great

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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

In Bangkok, in a low-budget hotel called "Heaven", the fate of four guests are interconnected due to a theft in a room: Sean (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a paranoid English drug dealer, that is dealing with a powerful local drug lord; the also British psychologist Rosa (Saskia Reeves), who is grieving the loss of her son and making a research with poor children in Thailand; a seriously wounded killer, hired to kill the mobster; and Wit (Alexander Rendel), a thirteen years old abused bellboy, that steals the guests. In the end, we see that it is almost impossible to control life, and sometimes, a subtle incident may lead to fatality.I did not find the word "Tesseract" in Webster or American Heritage Dictionary, but in internet, I found that it would be a 4-dimensional cube. The explanation of this word is also provided in the introduction of the movie. Using this concept with four characters in a hotel, reducing to three and converging to one, the screenplay writer wrote a very original and intriguing story, apparently based on a book, confused in the first twenty minutes since it is non-linear, but attractive when the viewer understands the plot. I believe that watching for the second time, this film would be better and better, and that is my intention in a near future. I liked the idea of how difficult would be to control our destiny, which is connected and affected by the actions of other people. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Alexander Rendel and Saskia Reeves give great performances. I really recommend this movie to audiences that like a dark and different story. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "No Limite da Realidade" ("In the Limit of Reality")

I'll have to admit, I was pretty much confused by this film. All the flashbacks and flash forwards had me reeling. Nevertheless, I was fascinated at the same time. It isn't quite the same story as the Alex Garland novel. To begin with, it's set in Bangkok, rather than Manila. I've seen "Bangkok Dangerous," which is a film by some of the same crew, and I think this is the better film. However, there are some incongruous elements. For instance, the boy "Wit" seems to have wandered in from another movie. He reminds me of one of those mischievous Third World sidekicks from one of the later Elvis films (fans of Rhys Meyers may appreciate the irony here). He can't really act, and he's obviously not Thai, but he's a winning presence nonetheless. The opening scene in the hotel room reminded me of "The Matrix," with its slow motion bullets. Later scenes were out of the "Reservoir Dogs" factory. Sandwiched in between were a couple of interesting stories, especially the one involving Saskia Reeves, as the psychologist who had lost her child. I also liked Jonathan Rhys Meyers, whose character is a mass of contradictions but who seems to grow as an actor with each film. See it for the film it could have been, but enjoy it for the experiment it is.