Sliced and diced

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2001)

A well made and original sci-fi/horror movie and a shame it was never released in the regular cinemas in my country. Luckily it's been released by now both on video as well as on DVD.
The story involves a group of people that wake up in a construction made up only of cubes. They don't know how or why they ended up there except that they better get out since their captors didn't see fit to supply them with either food or drink. Each cube on each side is connected to another one and some can be entered safely, while others contain deadly booby traps of diverse nature, a fact pointed out to the viewer already in the spectacular opening scene. To put it mildly it is a risky undertaking that awaits the characters of mixed plumage and they'll need each other badly to complete their journey, if they can that is, which naturally I won't divulge.
The relationships between the characters are fascinating and include surprising developments that perhaps sometimes seem a bit far fetched and over the top, but they do raise the suspense in this low budget movie. The movie looks, especially in view of the low costs, very well and suspense is kept up right until the end.
As a first, this movie by Canadian director Vincenzo Natali shows great talent. For what it's worth, I'd recommend it to any horror/sci-fi afficionado.