A film as frustrating as a Rubik's Cube

Rating: Null/10 (4 September 1999)

Remember the Rubik's Cube? Remember trying to solve the Rubik's Cube? Now, imagine being trapped inside a Rubik's Cube and trying to find your way out.
That is the intriguing premise of Trimark's sci-fi film, Cube. Five strangers wake to find themselves in a room. The room is a cube, six walls, six doors. It's a maze. Enter through the correct door, you move on. Enter through the wrong door, and you set off a booby trap and can wind up burned, poisoned, or even cubed (trust me, it's not pretty). Each room makes up a massive, giant cube containing thousands of identical rooms. the five have no idea why they are there, or who put them there. They must rely on each other, and their own individual abilities in order to escape.
What a great set up. Unfortunately, Cube the movie, unlike it's precision death devices in it, has a lousy execution. It falls victim to being a low budget film that looks like a REALLY low budget, direct to video film. the acting borders on camp, and much of the dialogue is laughable. It also suffers from the worst film demon of them all. The ending is downright horrendous. Never have I been so disappointed, annoyed, and let down by a films ending than I was here. The idea of the film is so bizarre and original, it could've been on of the most memorable sci-fi films of the late 20th century.
If you don't expect too much, Cube is a mildly entertaining, albeit, forgettable film. However, look on the bright side. If your watching Cube, and hate it, much like that colorful '80's mind game, when you get tired of this cube, you can just set it aside and forget about it. My grade: D