Poor in every way except its concept

Rating: 2/10 (12 March 2006)

If there's one thing good about this movie, its the concept: strangers are placed in a mysterious and dangerous structure with no reason (an original and intriguing idea of its time). Well, that's the reason why I gave this movie 2 stars.
The rest of this movie is a joke...literally. It is poorly acted to the point of annoyance. The dialogue is poorly written. The character development is inconsistent. Lastly, this movie is an insult to intelligence and education. Anybody who says this is a "smart" movie probably did not get farther than grade school algebra. This movie goes so far down the intelligence drain it claims the integer 567 is "astronomical" and almost impossible to factor without a computer (a cast comprised of a doctor, policeman, college student, and an architect).
People will argue that it had a low budget, but low budgets are not an excuse for bad acting and a terrible script. There are movies with higher budgets and better acting and scripts that are scrutinized worst than this movie has been on IMDb.
I do not understand why this movie has a such high rating on IMDb, and it really disappoints me that it does because it's very misleading. This movie is not above average. It caters to an audience who has no knowledge in simple math, similar to a movie like Hackers catering to audiences with no knowledge about computers. I believe the high ratings are solely for the movie's concept, which many agree to love. The concept alone is not enough to carry this poor movie.