Cube Reviews

(MU)Natali mantiene interés y ritmo, no flojea mucho en progresión,en esta husi clos geométrica de gente que avanza por un laberinto mecánico destruypendose en el intento (esa aspecto es el más pesado)

Cube, written by Andre Bijelic & directed by Vincenzo Natali was released in 1997amd stars David Hewlett, Nicole de Boer and Maurice Dead Wint.
The film is about a group of strangers who get placed in a maze of cubes that they must struggle to escape while evading deadly obstacles. That’s about it.
It’s like saw but without the lab rats who were thrown in were not put in for a significant reason. The crew of unfortuantes pull their heads together, kill each other off, and have brief bursts of psychosis while trying to get themselves trough.
The traps weren’t that intricate, or even that impressive, but they worked well to make the audience cringe. Some were painful, some were quick, some were just frightening. I do believe the acid to the face was probably my favorite.
The group needs to move from cube to cube to work their way out of the maze, but it takes them far too long to realize that the cubes are shifting as they’re moving through, and that they soon enough they end up in the same cube they started from. That’s right around the point they start to break. With that being said, watching their psychological struggles are far worse than watching anyone die. Or better. It depends on how you look at it.
It was entertaining, that’s for sure, and if you have even a touch f nerd in you, you're sure to appreciate it. It had its moments of actually making me care about the characters, and I may have even suspended my disbelief long enough to feel a slight twinge of panic. For that, I say well done.

I already saw this movie but since it was ages ago and since it was available on Netflix, I was really eager to check it out again. As a matter of fact, the first time I saw the damned thing was when it was released and, at the time, I have to admit that I was completely blown away by this flick and, for a very long time, it was even one of my favorite movies, no less than that. However, as the years passed by, I started to wonder if it was so amazing after all and a part of me actually didn't want to re-watch it fearing that it wouldn't live up to what I remembered. Well, eventually, after all these years, I still think it is a really entertaining and challenging story. The best thing is still that, at the end, you don't get any simple answers and you can think about it and try to sort it out as long as you want. However, I have to admit it was dealing with a rather limited concept after all. Indeed, it was neat that they didn't give any explanation but, then, there was not much else to do then watching the characters endlessly going from one cube to the another. On top of that, the characters were just too generic. I mean, the actors were not bad and it was neat that none of them was famous but they were not memorable either. Finally, even if the makers keep you in the dark until the very end, it was all rather predictable or maybe it is a movie that really works only the first time around. Anyway, to conclude, even if I won't consider it as one of my favorite movies anymore, it is still a really good SF thriller though and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

hey lets make a film that has no real beginning or end and explains nothing about itself. could have been so so much better - and no 2 is even worse. I would work out the rubik cube - more fun than this!

Just about any movie that features some sort of death scene within the first 4 or 5 minutes grabs my attention; as if to say "before the credits Shawn, here's a nice sequence of a man being sliced like a chunk of deli cheese." and I'm sucked in like that.
Here in this story are a group of people. People who find each other from different random rooms. Some room are found to be have hidden traps that do very serious damage to the human body. No one seems to know why they are there or where they actually are, but one things for certain; they need to find a way out. Attempting to master the traps; each person brings forth they're talent to pitch in and help as the group goes through room after room, dodging the violent booby traps. Suspicions sink in as time goes by, and with each person comes a point of view on what situation they are in, along with a person or group responsible. Man seems to be the greatest most destructive weapon of all in this movie; not only from the men who made this cube capable of evil unspeakable things, but the prisoners themselves who unleash their inner paranoia's on each other. Great flick with many different genres mixed in, a definite recommendation from me!


Quentin: For Christ's sake, Worth, what do you live for? Do you have a wife, or a girlfriend, or something?
Worth: Nope. I've gotta pretty fine collection of pornography.

This could've gotten a higher rating from me but it didn't because I never found out the why. I like to, nay have to, find out why. I find it frustrating. Although I realise that was the whole point, but still...

Great concept though and it's quite interesting to watch how the different characters react and interact.