Disappointing, dull and almost unwatchable

Rating: 3/10 (26 September 2008)

"Cube" is definitely a let-down without a whole lot going for it.
**SPOILERS**
Awakening in a strange box, Quentin, (Maurice Dean Wint) Leaven, (Nicole DeBoer) Worth, (David Hewlett) Holloway, (Nicky Guadagni) and Rennes, (Wayne Robson) realize they're trapped in a gigantic maze with no memory of what they're doing in it. When they realize that there's traps inside certain rooms, and that the rooms are all apart of a gigantic cube, they begin to wander through to safety. As they wind their way through, they start to realize a distinct pattern through the way the cubes are designed, which they believe is useful in getting out. Finding Kazan, (Andrew Miller) also stuck inside with them, they find that the numbers are getting lower due to the fact that they keep wandering into traps, which leads them to the secret that could lead them out of the deadly contraption.
The Good News: There's almost nothing worthwhile about this one. One of the main reasons to see this one is the first two kills to this. There's a couple of them spread throughout, but the very first ones are the most important. The first one is really impressive and incredibly gory, which is just the right way to get the film going off to a great start. The next one is another really brutal one and actually has some really great moments in the set-up for it, which is a nice twist that produces a fun kill. The only other area that works to this is the way it handles the character's transition, which is done nicely and comes off rather well and as surprising. These here are all that work for this one.
The Bad News: This one had a couple problems with it. The main one is that there's hardly anything going on in here. There's an extreme avoidance of the traps in here merely because it decides to focus on the rather annoying habit of having everyone yell at each other for trying to solve the riddles or just plain doing math to begin with. There's not a whole lot of exciting scenes of people yelling math solutions at each other, and that this takes up the entire middle segment of the film, lasting close to the hour mark, and these really start to take a toll on the film. At the end, these simply use up the time that could've been spent on luring those into the traps, the real reason for this one. Seeing only a couple fall to traps and most of the time ignoring them is something that doesn't sit well at all, ruining the film of it's main attraction and completely undoes most of the good it had, what little there was to start with. These are the film's biggest flaws.
The Final Verdict: Not a whole lot to really say about this one, some good things and a couple flaws, but nothing that really sticks out. If you have to see this one, then do so as well as fans of the others in the series, though those looking for something other than what this provides should ignore altogether.
Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence