not so solid

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2005)

I cannot deny that this is one of the most original movies I have ever seen. The setting is unique and it spreads on many levels, from the psychology of a trapped person to the structure of our society.
Yet I find several flaws in it. I find hard to believe that: - a person can kill another person while there is no certainty that this murder will make that person survive - an engineer that worked for months on the outer shell has no clue about the cube itself. While working on the constraints the shell has to endure, he would have learned about the moving cells, their weight, their frequencies, etc. He would have learned the outside temperature, the humidity, etc. - someone can find a permutation among the gazillions of possible permutations in a cube composed of 14 thousand cells just by reading a handful of numbers; I believe it would only reduce the possible permutations to billions instead of billions of billions of billions, and would be impossible to compute for a human brain. - a person knowing that a room can be deadly will jump into that room so fast. Wouldn't you be going very slowly ?
I agree with the underlying ideas of the movie; but I wish it had been a more powerful scenario with more coherent behaviours.