YMMV / Triangle

• Angst? What Angst?: Notably averted - in depiction of the reaction to the disappearance of an otherwise rather minor character of Heather. And Jess, rather realistically, takes an enormous amount of lasting psychological damage as a result of her extremely traumatic experiences.
• Awesome Music: The score overall is great, in particular the music in the opening scene, which has a very eerie, dreamlike quality to it.
• Designated Love Interest: Greg to Jess. Per his words, he only visited the diner out of hunger and not loneliness. He didn't feel the need for female companionship, until one day prior to the events of the film when he suddenly decided to ask her out. The two are barely acquaintances, and it isn't clear if there is more to their "romance" other than they didn't have anything better to do for the weekend.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: More than just a trope, as one of the rather plausible theories is that the film takes place in a literal purgatory after Jess' death in either the car crash or the accident at sea. In this interpretation, the taxi driver is the one who can finally bring her to Heaven - as soon as she comes to terms with her guilt over her son's life and death and accepts the driver's offer to follow him.
• Fridge Logic: Many commentators on the IMDB forums (now defunct) valiantly tried to explain the reason why the time loop resets some things but disregards others (the dead Sallys, Jess' lockets, and the dead seagull among others) only for their theories to fall flat.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Sally is an absolute bitch and snob but you can only imagine how she feels when she staggers to part of the ship with piles of previous murdered Sallys.
  • Jess when you learn about her past, if you believe that all Jesses are the same.
• Special Effect Failure: Let's just say they only had $12 million for the entire movie. And almost all things in CGI are supernatural, thus should look off.
• Spiritual Successor: The film has some very obvious similarities to the Spanish film Los Cronocrimenes
• Too Dumb to Live: Why does the other Jess keep fulfilling the time loop by keeping herself hidden and spying on herself rather than just revealing herself to the pre-time cast and stopping the entire mess from happening? Or why does Greg assume the people in the boat are hiding from them for fun rather than just letting them know of their presence?
  • To be fair to Greg, he is very rational-minded, and was just trying to find a somewhat sane explanation for why the ship appears to be deserted. And from his perspective, most of the weird things didn't happen. All he ever sees is an empty ship and few minutes later he gets shot, making it impossible for him to notice anything weird, as he's killed off so fast.
  • As for Jess, during the first loop, knowledge of what is going on doesn't instantly and magically pop into her head and thus she cannot yet have decided to stop the loop. When she does figure it out (at which point she tries to stop it), it is already too late. The second time it loops she actually intends to kill the others in order to use their boat to get away.
  • Jess seems to insanely conclude the loop is murder based, despite the same amount of time occurring in each iteration and the fact that there are multiple Jesses in each loop, so why does she think killing herself will reset the loop?
  • What do you do when you see a message saying 'Go to the theatre' written on a mirror in blood?
  • A pile of notes in your own handwriting is on a floor. Obviously you need to write down another note to be sure it's your own handwriting, adding another one to the pile, rather than removing the pile entirely, so your "past" self never finds them and thus breaks the circle.
• The Woobie:
  • Jess watches all of her friends be slaughtered, and ultimately turns out to be trapped in a purgatory of her own making.
  • Jess's son, Tommy once we see the original Jess physically abusing him and especially after he sees his mother being killed by herself.

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