Captured my attention and allowed me to experience the characters dilemma.

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 1999)

I just watched 'The Cube' this past weekend on video. In fact, I thought it was an excellent flick! Specifically, I enjoyed not knowing why the people were in the cube. The logic behind this impression is that by not knowing I became more involved with what the characters were possibly experiencing by not knowing themselves. It allowed me to have a greater depth of empathy by not having additional knowledge that the characters didn't have. Plus, there's a point within the movie that the characters speak out their beliefs why they may be in the cube - it allowed me to participate by coming up with my own reasons as well.
In addition, I believe that based upon very limited sets (so they changed the colors of the rooms with lights), the movie captured my attention the whole time through. And for the part of the movie that takes place in the "silent room", everyone that was watching it at my house ended up being really quite so as to not make a sound that could trigger something during that scene due to the fact that they too were very involved with the film themselves.
Great Movie!!