what if a writer woke up one day....

Rating: 2/10 (2 August 2008)

What if a writer woke up one day with a premise for a scifi project and then became trapped hopelessly by the idea with no way to bring it to completion? Such is the dilemma in "Cube". Although perhaps I'm underestimating this film: maybe the idea that the people spend all this time and effort to end up in the cube they started in (and, indeed,should simply have stayed there all along) is an analogy for the audience having just wasted the last 90 odd minutes and, indeed, should have not bothered with the trip at all. Terrifyingly like something I wrote and later threw away when I was in high school. Two points for retro creativity in set design.