Ahead of its Time!

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2015)

Seven complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless Kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
This film was a hit when it first came out. I do not recall if I saw it then or not. It seems familiar, but not enough to be certain. Regardless, it was clearly influential. Such films as "Saw II" used very much the same premise, though with a much smaller science fiction aspect. Was this conscious? Maybe, maybe not. But it was no doubt an influence.
The weakest thing about this is how one-dimensional the characters are. The cop is as stereotypical as a cop can be, and the math geek and the Asperger's kid... but it still makes for a great story, answering just enough questions to keep you guessing.