surprisingly good

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2001)

Low budget movies, with unknown actors or unknown directors, can often be huge surprises for us all.
It's exactly what happens with CUBE. Who would have thought that the first movie ever made by the director, Nicoli, a film with a budget smaller than half a million, a sum that Tom Cruise by example wins in a few days of work, could be so good??
Well it is. Cube is a psychological analysis about the way people act and change in difficult situations, actually in this case - trapped in a cube they don't know anything about.
The actors are surprisingly good, the film is very tensed, the dialogue is well written...
Of course there are bad things about it - you can't reach perfection from your first attempt. Maybe the worst thing is that we don't get any explanations concerning the reason and by whom the Cube was built.
All in all, a great watch. From which one phrase will remain in your mind for a very long time, a sentence that keeps you thinking. "Out there... out there it's just endless human stupidity".
Vote: 7.5 out of 10.