A good movie

I have noticed that this movie received some rather mixed reactions and some people even really hated it. Personally, I'm a huge fan of 'Cube' (which I really need to re-watch by the way) so I was quite eager to see this following effort directed by Vincenzo Natali. Well, I thought it was pretty good. Apparently, Natali wanted to make this movie right after 'Cube' but he thought that the technology was not ready yet and I think he made the right decision as the whole thing looked pretty impressive. Futhermore, Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley were very well cast and they both delivered some solid performances. Finally, the thing I enjoyed the most was how they perfectly mixed several genres like SF, horror, thriller and even some dark comedy and it actually worked very well, most of the time. Unfortunately, it was still missing something to become truly remarkable. Indeed, the whole concept was really intriguing and rather well developed but, very soon, I was wondering what they were getting at and that was the problem, nowhere specifically. Basically, they created this impressive being but this movie didn't have much less to offer which was a little bit disappointing. The underwhelming violent ending is another example of how clueless they seemed to be about dealing with this creature. Still, in spite of its flaws, it thought it was a decent flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10