Unusual

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2000)

Great idea for a film. Put a group of disparate people in what is essentially a puzzle box and watch as they valiantly battle fiendish traps and complex mathematical problems. As none of them remember why or how they woke up in the 'Cube' intrigue and mistrust follow them around and build up to a series of confrontations in which secrets and revealed and violent madness breaks out. This film kept me on the edge of my seat for the whole 90 minutes as the prisoners used their talents and discovered more and more what was happening to them. Also, with several being minced in quite hideous ways there was a question of 'who next?'. Not quite genius but close, though not for the squeamish.