Clever and intriguing, but more bloody than needed

Rating: 6/10 (2 August 2000)

This is a very clever and intriguing film. It combines cynicism about the social order with a clever use of mathematical concepts and violent outcomes direct from someone's worst nightmare. I myself have had nightmares that reflect elements of this film's plot. For me, though, most intriguing is the idea that the Rubic's Cube in which the characters find themselves is neither the result of any centrally directed project nor of any conspiracy but instead the net result of a collection of myopic self-interested inputs - the pessimistic response to Adam Smith. I would have liked this theme to have been explored further. A little more on the ideas and a little less of the nightmare would have made the experience more rewarding for me.