Cube

Pros: Set design, and intriguing premise
Cons: Too many questions with no answers...and a few overly enthusiastic thespians

This has got to be one of the strangest low budget films ever made. Not only do you have questions at the end, but you have them in the middle and the beginning as well. Let me explain.

This Canadian-made flick is the first feature length film...

Pros: Original story that pulls you in
Cons: The ending leaves much to the imagination

Cube is one of those movies that'll make you wonder "what the heck?" as soon as you see the credits role. I don't think it was ever in theatres, but can be found in most video stores.

In Cube, it starts out with a bunch of people finding each...

Pros: Interesting and different premise, film asks why are we here?
Cons: Acting, film's questions left unanswered may annoy some

Six people find themselves trapped inside a huge cube made up of thousands of room-sized cubes (imagine being inside a Rubik’s Cube twenty-six stories tall). Each cube is attached to adjoining cubes by hatches on each wall, floor and ceiling. In an early...

Pros: Clever scifi that hits the mark despite a small budget
Cons: The lack of answers will alienate a lot of people

Remember those cartoons from your childhood? The ones where a character runs through a screen door before falling into neatly cubed chunks? Welcome to the opening sequence for Cube. While the film is mostly a dialogue between the characters, there...

Pros: Original, interesting, great visuals. Stereotypical look at dire situation
Cons: You’ll hate some characters, but they’re written that way specifically

My apologies to Jac k and Mike. I’d imagine they, of all people, are going to be the most annoyed to hear this, but I gotta say it: If it wasn’t for Chr is’ ...

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Warning: This review contains a few details that you may or may not want to know about. I don’t think that it will ruin the movie, but this isn’t the review to read if you want to know nothing of the movie. Imagine a room that’s ...

Pros: At times, could be suspensful or interesting
Cons: A horrible movie in almost every sense.

When I found out about Cube, I really wanted to see it, for a couple of reasons. The first reason was that it sounded very interesting and intriguing. The plot was amazing; Cube’s plot seemed like a less violent version of Saw 2 (a movie I liked). It had ...

Pros: Thought provoking, spooky; makes the most of its limited buget
Cons: Lack of Science Fiction-y special effects and dependency on dialogue may turn off some

It is said that a person never truly knows what they are capable of until they are faced with the ultimate choice, Life or Death. This is the ultimate of many choices that face those who enter CUBE.

The premise of CUBE is blunt. A...

Pros: great and creative story, characters, acting
Cons: kind of a slow pace, bad music

Cube was one of those rare lucky finds. Searching for something new to watch (long before the days of DVD) at the rental store (yes, kids, your mother and I had to actually drive to a store to pick up our movie rentals!) I picked this one up ...

Pros: Interesting concept, well-written, great atmosphere, fantastic without being contrived
Cons: Occasional over-acting, parts of ending seem rushed

"It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death ...

Pros: original idea
Cons: abominable ending

A team of less than equals, negotiating their way through a gigantic booby trapped moving metal puzzle. Fighting between themselves, adding members, future helpers, of unknown value, maybe even dangerous distractions. The director obviously felt Sci Fi...

Pros: Intelligent film, odd but very clever.
Cons: Ending sequence a little ironic. It made me write too much.

Humans are odd creatures, they live their lives becoming more and more reliant on the lifestyle they lead. Put seven people in a room who don’t know each other and you can only imagine what might happen. No they don’t keep their eyes glued to the floor...

Pros: Fantastically original and a real brain teaser.
Cons: Very inconsistent characters, and definitely not a date movie.

Remember an episode the cult 60’s TV series “The Avengers” in which Diana Rigg's Emma Peel found herself in a country house built like an M.C. Escher drawing, with identical corridors that kept leading back to the same landing?

Well, take that...

Pros: great story, keeps the viewer captivated despite not having a lot of action
Cons: acting is poor, not for everybody

If you are looking for a fast paced action movie, don't watch Cube.

If you can sit down and watch a movie without seeing all kinds of dazzling special effects and lots of action, if you can be carried along by good dialogue, if you can...

Pros: Excellent plot, good characters, a MUST see
Cons: Some of the dialogue is poor

If you're into Sci-Fi then I'm sure you will have heard that Cube was considered one of the best genre films of last year. This is an independent film made on a small budget that did surprisingly well at the cinema.

I thoroughly enjoyed this...