September 19, 2006
I can't remember much about this film except that I found it tedious and I didn't see it that long ago.
Alexander Rendel,
Carlo Monni,
Carlos Monni,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Lene Christensen
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In Thailand's Heaven Hotel, four people find their lives colliding in tragic ways. Drifter Sean (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is a drug runner for a dangerous gang. Rosa (Saskia Reeves) is a psychologist per...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 26, 2004
Stats: 58 reviews
Flixster Reviews (58)
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November 17, 2009Tesseract does look good -- it is stylish and colorful. The characters, however, have little depth and show no real growth. The actors, especially the Thai kid, do a good job with inadequate material. The storyline is trite and never surprises you; giving it a more exotic setting...( read more)
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October 29, 2008I really couldn't sit through this. I watched it over the course of 6 days. I just couldn't get into it, but had to finish it.
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August 4, 2008This is a tough one.
On the one hand, I've developed a liking to some of the short stories that Alex Garland has written and the same applies to the ones that have been turned into films.
Unfortunately, the complexity of the structures he uses in his books means that they all te...( read more) -
July 13, 2008Pretty cool movie (but not as good as a film as The Beach, an adaptation by the same author, who now writes for the screen - 28 Days Later and Sunshine). This proves that like Ralph Fiennes in that Hannibal Lector movie, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is impossible to 'uglify' unless he d...( read more)
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June 20, 2007If The Beach inspired millions to descend on Thailand, this could make the rest stay at home. Stripped of hedonistic gloss, this is the seedy side of Thailand, featuring drugs, prostitution, homelessness and child labour. Amid that backdrop is a clever, low-fi thriller and an int...( read more)
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March 10, 2007It took me a couple of times to watch this to appreciate it, but now I really do adore it.
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January 1, 2007Not bad but very difficult to get into. Definitely not the best Alex Garland story to get the big screen treatment.
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