Inflammatory Racist Images?

Rating: Null/10 (24 July 1999)

I am surprised to read a few comments here and not see this mentioned - the lone black actor just happens to be cast as a murderous sadist - the pale white canadians cowering and awaiting his execution of them. I wondered why I had not heard much about this movie - good or bad. I think this film has a kind of "ambiguous shame" which inevitably comes from this type of casting decision. I recognized this actor (Maurice Dean Wint) but didn't remember from where until I saw that he had been on Earth: Final Conflict, suffering similar stigma. Man, this guy can't get a break! I cringed all throughout the episode in which Mr. Wint played a human whose body had been possessed by one of the ultra-pale ultra-evolved alien beings. This alien was experiencing what was referred to as "a dark journey" in the horrific animalistic world of Mr. Wint's life and body. I cringed throughout the episode, and had a similar feeling watching the ending moments of 'Cube'. There - I said it. Thank you.