Just stupid

Rating: 3/10 (28 January 2013)

I've just watched Cube and I must say it was soooo bad. For several reasons, which I will try to explain in the following paragraphs. Just bear with me for a moment.
First, the story. Well, there isn't much of a story, since the idea which the main theme of the film is centered on, takes you pretty much nowhere. The whole plot is, actually, a "what if" thing with no sense at all. There is a cube full of deadly traps, but no one knows who built it or at least why? There is no answer this questions. Vicenzo Natali and his team couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation for the cube's existence, so he dismissed the necessity of having one. That, my friends, is a huge lack in narrative seriousness.
You are watching a bunch of irritating people while they try to escape from the cube before death finds them. And, just like in Final Destination, this would have worked okay, had the movie been honest and hadn't try to trick us all into thinking it's some sort of sci-fi masterpiece, by adding high-school algebra to the formula. Let me break it down for you: Cube isn't good science fiction, because it doesn't really add up to anything, and it's not silly entertainment, because it takes itself way too seriously.
Moreover, the acting was terrible with capital "t". They (Maurice Dean Wint, Nicole de Boer, David Hewlett & others) make Ryan Phillipe look almost Oscar-worthy. So, any potential this movie might have had in the social field, - like human behavior and dark-side instincts in life threatening situations -, went sour because of the poor script and acting. The fact that the characters are all clichés (especially the classic black male antagonist and the math-genius autistic kid) didn't help either.