Clever,but could have been better worked out

Rating: 7/10 (21 June 2004)

SPOILERS
One can not see this is a directorial debut.Sure it is said that it is low-budget,but it's not obvious if you watch the special effects.
The low-budget is more in the acting and the development of the story and the characterization. The acting,although not that bad,is hampered by some really stupid and lame dialogue.Because it's a sort of horror movie it should be,but the dialogue here is rather pretentious.The main theme is pretty clever but it could have been better worked out.After a while you kind of get fed up with again another cube.The characters a very straight forward and from the word go you know that the disabled guy will live on.The only "surprise" was the death of the maths student.This wasn't really necessary,but in the line of the movie it goes without saying that the autistic man is actually the smartest although he seems very much a Dustin Hoffman imitation with his numerical brilliance.
For a debut it is definitely not bad and it keeps one watching. 7/10