Really good!

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2004)

I wouldn't say that this movie is top notch, but it is definitely way above average! What struck me more than the cube(s) or traps or anything else was that this movie basically was truly naturalistic. In naturalism you put a group of different people into a confined space and see what happens. I got that feeling from this movie. As the walls closed in on the people's minds some got more and more paranoid, it showed more and more if they were of good or bad character. And that is basically what you do in a naturalistic story - you study how people behave and how they change from every day behaviour to stress behaviour. I liked that quite a lot, there are not many movies out there which do that quite as purely or convincingly and Cube succeeded with that hard task, mainly because it didn't promise too much!

The setting itself was quite unique and the idea intriguing and really interesting!
The only things that made me smile a bit were the door handles. If you have some knowledge about tools for making screws you'll easily identify these odder door handles as die handles. But that wasn't anything that had any bad effect on the movie; it just struck me as a bit of an odd prop solution.
8/10