Good idea, bad execution

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2016)

The Cube started off with an entertaining opening scene. All I can say about the rest of the movie is that it was about 90 minutes long. B-grade acting, questionable math and philosophy references, cop-out plot development, and an ending which was probably written when Nguyen got bored of writing and just wanted it all to end are just some of the many things to distract you while you constantly ask yourself where this movie is going and why you're still watching it. If this movie had an underlying meaning then it could only be explained by the speech given by one of the protagonists about a third through the movie after which everything just goes South.
I'm not sure why the rating is so high or why this movies has received so much praise from other reviewers. My only guess is that most of the reviewers are from its country of origin, Canada, and they're too polite to say how much they want their 90 minutes back. 3/10 would not recommend.