Claustrophobic

Rating: Null/10 (11 February 2001)

"Cube" is an interesting study about human behaviour in extreme situations. It´s less a horror film than a psychodrama about growing aggressions and escalating conflicts, about mistrust and desperation. On the other side it shows the iron will of five people trapped in a deadly labyrinth who only want to escape and survive. It seems if they were test subjects for a psychiatric experiment. The only pity is that you neither find out who build this giant complex nor why they are inside. At the end there is no solution for all that questions. You can use this film more as a visual instruction about the human nature than caring about the story or any logic. An other problem is, that the dialogues sound very unnatural and the acting is not very good. I give solid 7 points out of 10 for the original idea and the continuous suspense.