cheaply made, thrilling, gory, upsetting

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2001)

This is seriously one of the freakiest and weirdest movies I've seen.

It gives a sense of human paranoia, human evils, and also a sense of Darwinism. Who will survive out of: one lady doctor, one black cop, one escape artist, one chick math nerd, one mentally ill, and one guilty salary man?
Even though this movie is cheaply made, considering they probably only had to make one big room with six sliding doors (and the colored walls change color to show that they are actually moving from cube to cube), parts of the computer graphics are great... and gory.
Without any music, tension builds up quite quickly. The only sounds we hear are those of the people talking, the sliding doors, and the electronic booby traps.
Despite the thrill, the tension, and the heart pumping faster, the movie itself is satirical and quite upsetting. By the end, I asked myself if humans are actually that evil, and if our society is THAT corrupt. And also, if one watches movies for visual effects, as I do, only the first half of the movie will appeal, since most of the movie is quite repetitive. I mean, seriously, the best of visual directors could not make an aesthetically appealing movie from people moving simply from box to box!