Not rounded

Rating: 5/10 (24 January 2010)

The Cube is original and credit can be given for its clever resolving of how to escape the predicament of the Cube. However, for all its anxious interplay it just feels rather frugal both in script and appearance.
The film is able to project the feel of claustrophobia and delusion rather well in its short period of running time, we are never able to escape the constant of the Cube and its horrifying predicament. The Cube and its purpose are never satisfactorily resolved leaving you to determine the where and whys, which may frustrate some.
Unfortunately, the acting seems to be a contest of wills, each and every actor trying to out do one another with emotion. At points in the film you are at the opposite end to their projected emotional outpourings. The script is rather threadbare on providing a succinct or logical discussion of their predicament preferring stereotypical interplay and physical violence and language. More time should have been given to other areas of discussion if it was to propel itself to a sci-fi with more bite but maybe that was not its purpose.
The Cube is an okay film but for all its hard-work it is rather frugal looking. The Cube tries valiantly to be a film with depth but its lack of purposeful debate, stereotypical characters and at times woeful acting make it a film which never fulfilled its possible potential.