"tangled plot" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a complicated or confusing story with a lot of seemingly unrelated parts or characters. For example, "The detective novel had a very tangled plot that kept all the readers guessing until the end."
The messily tangled plot has the kind of too-easily unknotted resolution that is generally forgiven if there's a jaunty melody or two and a good rousing anthem.
Previous tangled plot points are revealed to actually be the origin story of a cult Marvel Comics antihero, a topline character the show can genuinely own.
"A Cat in Paris" is a nifty little caper in which blustery gangsters, intrepid detectives, cat burglars (one of them literally feline) and a little girl named Zoé scamper across nighttime rooftops unraveling a pleasantly tangled plot.
There's a particular irony to this twist in the tangled plot of Trump's Presidency.
"Lionel Asbo" may not have the expansive cast or tangled plot of "David Copperfield" or "Oliver Twist," but as the author hints through the occasional allusion, his refrains are Dickensian.
Though unrelated to the tangled plot of "The Whites," the scene allows us to see the detective in his element as a first-rate, instinctive interrogator of another guilt-ridden father who whispers at last, after Billy has led him to a tacit confession, "This is not me. . . .
Charles J. Gussman, who brought delightfully tangled plots, addictively picturesque characters and heaping doses of steamy romance to soap operas he wrote for radio and television, died on Oct. 18.
Winston Churchill, a keen aficionado of wartime deception, described the spying game as "tangle within tangle, plot and counterplot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party... interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true".
Vicars and curates, tradesmen's families edging up the social ladder, tangled marriage plots — for lovers of Barsetshire, it's all here.
After Elizabeth is killed by the Joker at the honeymoon, Bruce is forced to don the Batsuit once more, tangling a plot which involves Lex Luthor, while Clark begins a romance with Lana Lang in Smallville and tries to pull Bruce back.
"Strident, overbearing, tangled up in plot-lines and bunged with theory, the director's first film post-Batman rockets its way to entertainment through Nolan's dogged force of will," Barnes declared.
