Has a lot of unused potential...

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2015)

Cube is a movie that apparently has a cult following out there. So is it worth watching? The movie is overrated if you ask me. The premise of the film is great and really original and the movie DOES do some things very well, some of these things are the creation of the set and the suspense the movie creates almost throughout. Also some of the kills were pretty awesome and original, so that's always good to have in a horror film. However, I do believe the movie does get more things wrong than right: the acting is pretty terrible and the dialog clichéd. Also sometimes it seems the writers rushed into getting the characters into certain situations too quickly, which creates some pretty weird and uncomfortable dialog. Another thing the movie does wrong is how they handle the moving through the maze and it gets way too brainy and illogical at the same time and it copies Rain Man. It does. The ending where the crazy black guy kills two of the other characters is also pretty unrealistic. I mean, how the hell didn't they hear him get in the same room as them? It was established several times during the movie that the doors are extremely freaking' loud when they open and close. By the way that guy's situation escalated pretty quickly: he went from being the hero to Jack Torrance in like nothing. I have to say I did enjoy some of Cube and yeah Saw may be kind of a rip-off of this, but Saw executes its ideas way better than this. Cube is a let down and, although with potential, ends up being a pretty generic late 90's horror flick with bad acting.