Doesn't Quite Follow Through on Great Start/Premise

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2000)

I have to agree with a lot of points made by my friend from Escondido. Cube has a great premise and starts off really well: a disparate group awakes to find themselves in a cube-like prison of connecting rooms, some of which are laced with (delightfully cinematic) deadly booby-traps. The film begins as a mind game as this group attempts to work out how to find a way out. Yet about halfway through one of the characters makes MAJOR changes to his personality, and the film becomes less a thinking-man's horror film then a standard evade the psycho flick. Still, its still more inventive, and interesting, than the majority of Hollywood schluck. A seven out of ten.