Pseudo intellectual excuse for physical and emotional violence

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2004)

The quality of the dialogue in this movie rivals Plan 9 from Outer Space. The character development clunks along like a high school creative writing project. One character "Wren" is developed in about three sentences and then killed off to create an "irony" that he was the escape artist and was the first to die. The "cop" inexplicably decides to let go of the hand of the doctor and let her drop to her death. No explanation, no reason. Solely to set up the irony of the protector being the killer and the shock of watching a character die. The movie still rates a four rating because the set design and the cube concept were interesting and the editing and camera work were excellent. The acting, script, and plot line were abysmal. As soon as the idiot savant character is introduced, you know that he will be the one to solve the mystery. I was so offended by the movie I couldn't watch the end. Maybe it suddenly got great in the last fifteen minutes, but I doubt it.