a5c7b9f00b With his crews and cargo ships disappearing at an alarming rate around the Bermuda Triangle, a billionaire hires a crew full of specialists to understand why. Hand picked by the man himself, the crew consists of a skeptical journalist, an ocean engineer, a scientist, and a psychic. With an attractive financial offer made to each of them, the crew will investigate the legendary, and very mysterious Bermuda Triangle to find answers. But as their findings deepen, the crew finds themselves surrounded by bizarre occurrences that only become all the more nightmarish. The offers made to them may have seem ideal at the time, but now they may have gotten in over their heads against something they may not understand. While chasing a whaler, the Greenpeace boat sinks with the vessel, pulled by a mysterious force underwater and only Meeno Paloma survives. Meanwhile, after the disappearance of six ships in the Bermuda Triangle in one year, the millionaire owner of the Mineral Shipping Lines Eric Benerall hires the skeptical journalist of The Observer Howard Thomas; the scientist Bruce Geller; the offshore engineer Emily Patterson and the psychic Stan Lathem to investigate the reasons for the phenomenon in the area. If the team succeeds in their quest for the truth, each one would receive five million dollars. They find a high-tech underwater facility from the Navy, and each one of them has glimpses of alternative reality after their discovery. They conclude that the experiment conducted by the Navy is affecting the electromagnetic balance of the ocean, while trying to find a way to close the dimensional tear opened by the Philadelphia Experiment. But they believe that the procedure actually will open the Pandora Box and destroy the world. *The Bermuda SPOILERS* After having lost yet another ship in the infamous Bermuda Triangle, shipowner Eric Benirall (Sam Neill) decides to enlist the help of a quartet of specialists; journalist Howard Thomas (Eric Stolz), meteorologist Bruce Geller (Michael E. Rodger), marine biologist Emily Patterson (Catherine Bell) and psychic Stan Lathern (Bruce Davison), to discover the secret behind the mysterious disappearances in the Triangle; if they will, they'll get $5 million each.<br/><br/>Soon they find out that the US Navy is somehow involved, and that probably the famous 'Philadelphia Experiment' done in 1943 on the USS Aldrich may have been the start of it…<br/><br/>I hadn't big expectations, when I sat down and watched 'The Triangle', and I was very pleasantly surprised to see that the great names (Stoltz, Bell, Davison, Neill, and Lou Diamond Philips in the pivotal part of a man who returned alone from the Triangle and helps our foursome solve the enigma) weren't there just for show; there was also a very good script, that kept me guessing, and waiting with baited breath for the next twist, and also caring for the main characters.<br/><br/>A great miniseries, in the vein of '4400', which I regret not having, in DVD or otherwise.<br/><br/>The Triangle: 9/10. Not that it wasn't pure joy to see the incomparable Catherine Bell again, but what was this about? What a waste of a good cast. Sadly, their acquisition must have totally sapped the budget, leaving nothing for the story/screenplay but a sappy montage of disconnected pseudo-science replete with what appear to be alternate plots when the last miscalculated branch turned out to be non-fulfilling.<br/><br/>The Triangle is a government cover-up and conspiracy. No, wait. Early on we found out that Columbus has an encounter there. What? There wasn't a government then. Well, never mind, the government's going to make it go away. Wait, our intrepid (and decidedly non-technical) protagonists have determined that the government's plan, whatever it is, will make things catastrophically worse. So they get in a cigarette boat and whiz out to where the *underwater* government facility is, but get there too late. So, recycle the plot and leave twenty minutes earlier. Drat! Those pesky Ospreys show up twenty minutes early, too. (Can they really fly forward at 50 knots or so with the props in lift attitude?) This time they blast the boat, from which the good guys have bailed just in time. Now the good part. The govies, who just tried to kill them, now go to their rescue and bring them aboard the secret lab. Why would they do that? Anyway, our heroes talk the misguided government scientist and administrators out of their ill conceived scheme to reverse the Triangles nefarious effects, and what? It all goes away. Just think, it's been sitting there all this time – ever since either Columbus or the Philadelphia Experiment, I can't tell – and if we ignore it, it'll just go away. Sheeesh! <br/><br/>A firm precept of good SciFi is that no matter how hokey the primary plot device, the logic of the tale has to be self and internally consistent. This approach has yielded some really challenging time travel stories, for example, because all the paradoxes in the basic idea have to be carefully worked out and accommodated. No such effort was expended here. Remember what Mark Twain (allegedly) said: "Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." One could argue that this story must, then, be true for it surely makes no sense.
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