Watchable....once!

Rating: 7/10 (16 August 1999)

The concept is a splendid one, and the pace and interest is quite well maintained, but two things stop this being as good as it could be. The first problem is the acting which, to be honest, is rather poor. The characters may be constrained by a weak script, but the passion and emotion is all from the Rambo school of films rather than the more appropriate Silence of the Lambs school. The second problem is the ending. I have a horrible feeling that it is all meant to be religious in its significance (help!) but it is so wet and so opaque that I really felt annoyed at the dozen of so guesses I had made at the Cube's significance during the film. This was a film setting a puzzle and giving no solution. My attempts at the infamous Rubik's Cube in the eighties were just as fruitless so, maybe, this film was just one big clumsy allegory of that?!