Surprisingly Satisfying
Added 6/7/2009
Although the film is low-budget, the story and concept are fresh and fascinating. I think the Saw franchise borrowed elements from this movie as well. If you like the Saw series, check out Cube.
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Completely horrible - 4 stars worth!
Added 6/7/2009
I am stealing a quote from Ronald Battista's one-star review (I hope he doesn't mind) because it is completely on point and sums the movie up completely: "Dreadful acting, dreadful writing, dreadful characters, dreadful attempt at philosophy. Unlike the cube itself, this puppy has no depth, though it sure tries to pretend".
A perfect review. Completely accurate.
It has truly HORRIBLE acting and writing and makes such a ham-handed attempt at a philosophical commentary that it is truly sometimes hard to watch. That is why you cannot take it seriously. It is gloriously bad. It has worse acting than "Twister" if you can believe that. The actors - especially the guys that play Quentin and Rennes (okay the doctor too)- really act like they are parodying bad acting. It is THAT bad.
Also, more disturbing than anything in the movie are the reviewers that really believe the movie makes some profound statement. It does attempt to, but the execution is abysmal, and it just turns into a long cliche. It has the most stereotypical character types you can imagine - it's like a bad science fiction Breakfast Club, except in the Breakfast Club you ended up liking at least a few of the characters. Not so much here - I pretty much actively disliked each character from beginning to end. For most of the movie I was honestly HOPING that each character would meet a grisly end.
Horrible movie, but can be fun. Rent before you buy though. You certainly have to be in the right mood to be able to sit through it.
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Evil created for no reason, created by people blind to it's effect.
Added 5/21/2009
The theme of motivationless societal evil is explorered in this movie.
This is shown when we realize one of the prisoners actually designed part of the Cube. Of course he had no idea what his designs were really for.
The scary possibility is that there might be no actual motivation in building the Cube, yet it's there. The prisoners are there for no reason, except to use the cube and justify its construction. A real world analogy could be some real world prisons (such as the Soviet Gulag). Some prisoners might be shuffled in JUST to justify it's existence, and keep it useful.
There is also the idea of people just doing their jobs, not aware of the consequences of their actions. The prisoner who admited he designed part of the Cube thought he was just doing another anonymous project. Can the same thing be said of the IBM engineer who designed a Punch Card accounting system specifically sold to Nazi Germany?
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Good product, received it quick with only standard shipping. No negative issues to speak of.
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Sub-intellectual pap
Added 5/17/2009
Dreadful acting, dreadful writing, dreadful characters, dreadful attempt at philosophy. Unlike the cube itself, this puppy has no depth, though it sure tries to pretend. It's like "No Exit" for morons.
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Surprisingly Satisfying
Added 6/7/2009
Although the film is low-budget, the story and concept are fresh and fascinating. I think the Saw franchise borrowed elements from this movie as well. If you like the Saw series, check out Cube.
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Completely horrible - 4 stars worth!
Added 6/7/2009
I am stealing a quote from Ronald Battista's one-star review (I hope he doesn't mind) because it is completely on point and sums the movie up completely: "Dreadful acting, dreadful writing, dreadful characters, dreadful attempt at philosophy. Unlike the cube itself, this puppy has no depth, though it sure tries to pretend".
A perfect review. Completely accurate.
It has truly HORRIBLE acting and writing and makes such a ham-handed attempt at a philosophical commentary that it is truly sometimes hard to watch. That is why you cannot take it seriously. It is gloriously bad. It has worse acting than "Twister" if you can believe that. The actors - especially the guys that play Quentin and Rennes (okay the doctor too)- really act like they are parodying bad acting. It is THAT bad.
Also, more disturbing than anything in the movie are the reviewers that really believe the movie makes some profound statement. It does attempt to, but the execution is abysmal, and it just turns into a long cliche. It has the most stereotypical character types you can imagine - it's like a bad science fiction Breakfast Club, except in the Breakfast Club you ended up liking at least a few of the characters. Not so much here - I pretty much actively disliked each character from beginning to end. For most of the movie I was honestly HOPING that each character would meet a grisly end.
Horrible movie, but can be fun. Rent before you buy though. You certainly have to be in the right mood to be able to sit through it.
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Evil created for no reason, created by people blind to it's effect.
Added 5/21/2009
The theme of motivationless societal evil is explorered in this movie.
This is shown when we realize one of the prisoners actually designed part of the Cube. Of course he had no idea what his designs were really for.
The scary possibility is that there might be no actual motivation in building the Cube, yet it's there. The prisoners are there for no reason, except to use the cube and justify its construction. A real world analogy could be some real world prisons (such as the Soviet Gulag). Some prisoners might be shuffled in JUST to justify it's existence, and keep it useful.
There is also the idea of people just doing their jobs, not aware of the consequences of their actions. The prisoner who admited he designed part of the Cube thought he was just doing another anonymous project. Can the same thing be said of the IBM engineer who designed a Punch Card accounting system specifically sold to Nazi Germany?
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