Smart, frightening, unique

Rating: 7/10 (22 September 2002)

This is a pretty special film. You get thrown right in without any underlying story, where a couple of individuals are trapped in a cubic maze. Nobody knows what it is, why they are there or how they got there. As a viewer of the film you do not know anything more than the characters do, as they progress through the deadly traps and hopefully earn some understanding of the mystery. Somehow these individuals were not chosen by random to enter the maze, in some way they each carry one piece of the puzzle, all they have to find out is just what these pieces are and how to use them.
I thought this film created a pretty real sense of fear all the way through. It gives your mind a little spin. That said it is far from perfect. I believe the idea is very interesting, but it could have been even better executed with better actors and a bigger budget. The character chemistry does not live up to the smart qualities of the original idea of the film, and occasional events are cliche'. I however really recommend you to rent and see this film, do not buy it unseen as I suspect the replay value is pretty close to nothing.