a must-see, no doubt about it

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2000)

The first comment I gave when I walked out of the movie was: "If Kafka, Sartre, and Golding were a team of scriptwriters working together on a project,"Cube" would be the result".
When I read the comments in this forum, it was interesting to see that the those three names pop up again and again.
Yes, (*mild spoiler*) the acting sometimes is good rather than brilliant, and it becomes clear that Sartre did NOT write the screenplay. Still, the movie is brilliant, and in my opinion comments that criticize the composition of the characters (playing the stereotype-, the inconsistency-, or the "character-too-flat"-card) are not justified. Each character is both blessed and cursed by his or her individual talents. Each virtue has the flaw inborn. Quentin does possess leadership qualities and a soldier's virtues. Affinity to violence, however, is and must be intrinsic in the figure of the "Heroic Knight" who might crack in extreme situations and turn butcher. Character development, at least in the cases of Quentin and Worth, is perfectly consistent with mythology (which often is consistent with psychology).
I will spare my readers any deeper analysis and end this comment by awarding the movie a "9"!