A poor example of a well-known theme

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 1999)

This film is a poor example of a well-known theme: stick a bunch of seemingly unrelated, very different people together in a stressful situation and see what comes of it. This is a risky thing to do because it requires excellent scriptwriting and characters. Unfortunately, Cube did not have these things.
The characters are flat, two-dimensional caricatures that are irritating and over-the-top almost immediately. The things that matter, ie a meaningful explanation of who built the cube and why (rather than the characters' own speculations) are left unresolved, which is unfortunate because this type of information, for this film at least, would have made it a much better movie. The set could only distract me from the characters, bad dialogue and plodding plot for a short time. I left the cinema with the feeling of having seen a pretty dull movie, and the gory opening sequence just seemed like a cheap shock tactic in hindsight.
I agree with Steve from Queensland. Hitchcock did it better. Go out and hire Hitchcock's "Lifeboat", or the sci-fi remake from about ten years ago, "Lifepod". Both are much better examples of this type of film than Cube is.