Fluff & Rehash -- but enjoyable nonetheless

Rating: Null/10 (2 February 2003)

Commenters rave about Cube's character development? Puh-leese! And they complain about the sets? I don't get it.
This film is a rehash of the old Avengers episode "The House That Jack Built." But instead of Jake Steed & Emma Peel, we have a set of caricatures (yes, caricatures, not characters!). Among them, the waifish logical math whiz, the fascist brutish cop, the bleeding-heart liberal, the guilty engineer-of-death, and, of course, Rain Man.
The set(s) and execution of the use of one repeated set (plus some edge-of-cube-work) works extremely well. A bit of color and some different numbers, with a continually incomplete puzzle, makes for a continually interesting premise.
Of course, the premise breaks apart if you actually pay attention to the math (in relationship to their actions).
Aside from the caricatures in place of characters, what disappointed me was the implausibility of the ending -- who survives, and why.