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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 3
Runtime: 90 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2005

Format:

Mini series

Genres:

Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Created By:

Bryan Singer, Dean Devlin, Rockne S. O'Bannon

Actors:

Bruce Davison, Catherine Bell, Charles Martin Smith, Eric Stoltz, John Sloan, Lisa Brenner, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sam Neill, Shannon Esra

Made In:

UK, USA

Premiered at:

SyFy

SyFy mini series and orig­i­nal movies are usu­ally bad, with few excep­tions, and at first, I didn’t expected much from The Tri­an­gle, despite the names behind it. To be hon­est, the only rea­son I have watched this episode was the name of the Rockne S. O’Bannon (mas­ter­mind behind my favorite TV series Farscape). And, as it turns out, this is really good mini series, not with­out flaws, but still very enjoy­able and entertaining.

Pro­duc­tion

Series is cre­ated by Brian Singer (House M.D., X-​Man movies, Super­man Returns, The Usual Sus­pects, Apt Pupil) and Dean Devlin (Lever­age) along with Rockne. Series is very expen­sive, with many spe­cial effects shot and it had very high rat­ings for pre­miere air­ing, with over 4 mil­lion view­ers, and it remains one of the high­est rated mini series SyFy ever made.

Story

Core of the story is the mys­tery behind the Bermuda Tri­an­gle, but this time with much more orig­i­nal approach. And for the most part we are fol­low­ing two story lines that will come together at the end to solve the mys­tery and resolve it. One story is with only sur­vivor of the event con­nected with tri­an­gle when 2 ships got lost. He is hav­ing trou­ble grasp­ing real­ity and expe­ri­ences strange things. Main story is fol­low­ing group of experts in dif­fer­ent fields hired by ship­ping tycoon to dis­cover the truth behind the Bermuda Tri­an­gle, for 5 mil­lion dol­lars each. But, the ini­tial skep­ti­cism by all involved will soon turn into some­thing else, and they will start to expe­ri­ence strange events, time shifts and rip­ples that all emanate from within the Triangle.

For the most part, story is good, but it feels to long at times, and many things look like fillers than actu­ally some­thing that story needs. Through strange events we learn about char­ac­ters back-​stories and the way this is done is some­thing I really liked. End­ing feels rushed. They needed dynamic end­ing, but this is not it. Still, final solu­tion is good and interesting.

Cast and characters

Cast is very good, and is one of the best aspects of the series with such names as Eric Stolz, Sam Neill, Bruce Davi­son and beau­ti­ful Cather­ine Bell. I must admit that I even liked the per­for­mance of B movies star Lou Dia­mond Phillips. Most of the char­ac­ters have pre­dictable reac­tions, but this is not that impor­tant for the over­all story and series is really enter­tain­ing to watch. Don’t expect some deep mean­ing, this is fun series with inter­est­ing take on the famous Triangle.

Con­clu­sion

Tri­an­gle is a good mini series, much bet­ter than usual Sy-​Fy works, and with good cast, high pro­duc­tion val­ues and inter­est­ing story is enter­tain­ing and fun to watch.