Great idea, bad result

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2000)

I think this movie had a great setting. It could have been very good, but the end left me annoyed and somewhat disappointed.
(* spoiler warning *)
I think the atmosphere in the movie was very good. I liked the way the rooms looked, and i liked the thought of the seemingly neverending maze they were trapped in. The fact that there were no music, and only sound coming from the cube made me feel the characters could hear their own breath and heartbeat in their paniced state, and this affected the audience too. The panic and claustrophobic feelings in the characters mind melt over at the audience, and make you identify in some way with one of the characters. When they eventually turn on each other, showing us their true self, the tension get higher and you tend to cheer for the character(s) you want to make it out alive.
But only one of them does.. and when he does, you dont get to know what happened with him, where the cube was, who made it, or why. There is a lot of questions, and no answers, which leaves me a little unsatisfied. Its atmospheric and fascinating in most of the running time, but I'd like to have seen a more revealing ending.