Superb production design do not make up for the acting.

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2000)

Cube is a visually brilliant movie, unfortunately rendered nearly unwatchable by the hackneyed and syrupy over-acting. The one genuine performance in the entire piece is the man who says the least. Worth, the so called nihilist, provides the film with a quiet center while everyone else resorts to predictable, often laughable acting by rote. The most offensive onslaught over "acting" comes from a man portraying an idiot savant type, and he basically pulls out of his bag of tricks every movement and nuance that you could learn on a school yard amidst several cruel eighth-graders in an afternoon. I hate to say it, but I cared so little for any of the characters, that I didn't really want any of them to get out of the cube. With that in mind, I do think that it would be worth watching if you could get the DVD version of it and watch the film with the director's commentary on.