you're trapped

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2016)

Vincenzo Natali's "Cube" has to be one of the most intriguing movies ever. Sort of a thriller spin on Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit", it features some people who mysteriously wake up in a cube-shaped room with no memory of how they got there. Each has his/her own theory about the cube (a supervillain's brainchild, the military-industrial complex) but they realize that they have to find a way out...but which way is out?
The claustrophobic setting combined with the cube's Kafkaesque nature makes this one disturbing movie. The cast members were people whom I didn't recognize, so that made it seem as though this could be happening to literally anyone. I will say that some of the dialog was hackneyed, but the plot made up for that, especially the twists that they threw in.
I recommend the movie. It won't be for everyone, but it does pose the question of how much we know about the world and people around us.