Stephen Kingish

Rating: 3/10 (27 June 2002)

A few years ago a friend recommended this movie to me, but I didn't have the chance to see it until yesterday. I heard of the concept and being an enthousiastic supporter of intelligent SF, I eagerly sat down to enjoy a movie that would actually make me think. Well, I hoped it would.
After what seemed like a very long time, disappointment reared it's ugly head. This was three minutes into the movie. The characters turned out to be 2-dimensional at best, the dialogue unconvincing and any thirteen year old school boy could have thought up the 'disturbing view of human nature'.
If you're looking for a movie that rises above the level of a badly written morality play, try Ghost in the Shell, Donnie Darko, 2001 or A Clockwork Orange. The Cube is perhaps better left to those who prefer an easy-to-understand answer to a well-posed question.
O, and about the bureaucracy bit; try reading Kafka and find out how it's properly done.