Disappointing in almost every way

Rating: Null/10 (29 October 2002)

This is a movie with an intriguing idea, but which fails in almost every specific of its execution. If this had just been done as a thriller, it probably would have been quite enjoyable, but it attempts to speak to "bigger issues" (e.g. the government's influence on our life, the idea of the cube having its own existence and development once its hypothetical creators are long-gone) and winds up horribly pretentious and "talky" as a result. The characters speak in unbelievably trite one-liners that sound like they came from the pen of an ambitious junior high school student (e.g. when the angry cop tells the liberal doctor "I spend my days cleaning up the mess your bleeding heart made"), and none of the character "developments" make any sense, or have any kind of emotional resonance. Without giving away anything, the ending simply left me shaking my head and muttering "What the ****?", implying that the "meat" of the movie was intended to be the juvenile character interaction and dialog that preceded it. The only good thing about this movie was that it was relatively short.