Whatever your station in life, your time is way too valuable for this movie ...

Rating: 1/10 (5 February 2002)

... you will never be able to get those ninety minutes back. Run. Walk. Play in a park. Do laundry. Hug somebody. Write a letter. Clean out that messy drawer. Do the crossword. Surf the internet. Just don't watch this movie. I'm serious.
Now, before the hordes of angry adolescents with Jessica Alba posters start coming after me (with the larger, more thoughtful general sci-fi set not far behind), let me say ... the IDEA of this movie is interesting.

Essentially a takeoff on the disaster/Poseidon Adventure setup, where a bunch of diverse people who wouldn't normally hang out together are forced to get along in order to solve a big problem -- e.g., their survival -- I thought it wouldn't be half bad. And it's not, initially. But as this thing plods on, with some really poor acting performances, it really vacillates between two poles: "Oh, yeah, we've been dropped in a cube ... a giant series of cubes, actually, and we're probably going to die ... hey, how do we open that door? Hmm, that's a nice shirt/pant combo he has ..." and "OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD we're going to die! Die! DIEDIEDIE!!!!"
I've never been trapped in a cube, so this may be normal behavior. But it's a little tired from an acting standpoint.
So ... acting fair to middlin', at best. But what really gets me is you watch this whole stupid affair, only to find out ... nothing. Zip, nada, nothing. It just ends.
Now perhaps I'm accustomed to films and not self-indulgent class projects. But a little more than "hey, the savant'll save 'em" might be nice. I'm not asking for the whole backstory -- I watch X-Files, etc., and understand the fun of keeping stuff from the audience. But this is the sci-fi equivalent of one of those French films, where she might date him, and might not, and we don't know, and there's a lot of talking, and ... hey, it just ended. For those not into this sort of thing, it will leave you very unsatisfied. Trust me.
However, kudos to the filmakers. This had to be the cheapest set in movie history -- two adjoining cubes that light up different colors.