Concept would've made a good student film... (SPOILERS!)

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2003)

I caught "Cube" back in 1998 (where it was on a limited run) at the Ken Cinema in San Diego, though I'd first heard of the picture through "Fortean Times" magazine. With a couple of friends in tow, I plunked down my seven bucks and subjected myself to Vincenzo Natali's "vision." We just could not stop laughing, though at the end we all groaned at the crappy religious symbolism of the character who survives the cube and the light the character walks into. As many others have written here, "Cube" has a very original and existential concept which is undermined by characters who are nothing more than archetypes who mouth some of the most rediculous lines ever written by somebody not Ed Wood. On top of these defects, the film goes on too long, and the director/writer seems to have a mean streak, though whoever directed the sequel was even worse. With our luck, somebody will make a reality show based on it.