Cube (1997)
Genre: Scifi / Horror
Duration: 90 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: Vincenzo Natali
Stars: Maurice Dean Wint, Nicole de Boer and Nicky Guadagni
IMDb score:
7,1 (260.469)
Releasedate: 9 September 1997
Cube plot
"Don't look for a reason... Look for a way out."
Six people awaken in a maze of interlocking cubic rooms with deadly booby traps. None of them know why they were captured, but it soon becomes apparent that they can all contribute to the escape.
Reviews & comments
Vidi well
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- 540 messages
- 703 votes
Secretly a favourite.
Cube has been a movie I watch regularly for years. From the first moment I found the story gripping, and the theme interesting. I take it for granted that the acting is mediocre, the dialogues very wooden, and the special effects clearly show poor cgi. This film invites you to watch it once in a while, and shows that you can make a catchy film with a small budget and an original concept.
By far the best part though, I'd rather skip parts 2 and 3. The charm of this film is the small budget, and the mystery surrounding the cube, which is completely destroyed in the other parts. Here the cube still seems to be a metaphor for society, or life itself. The conspiracy theories mentioned in this movie are not confirmed anywhere. I like that lack of clarity, it allows you to let loose your own ideas on the meaning of this film.
4*
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Black Math
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- 5430 messages
- 1753 votes
Although low-budget, this is still a strong film. Set up because I really liked El Hoyo and I read in reviews that this would be a similar movie. It's intriguing, of course, what's going on and how one gets out of it.
As for the former, I think I like the interpretation of DaveV here the most. In short: The Cube stands for our own society, which itself has no consciousness or plan, but to which we all contribute without thinking about it and from which we cannot escape unless we, like the autist, standing outside society.
In that respect it is satisfying in retrospect that the girl does not make it to the end; I would have given it to her because she actually found how to escape, especially with math. So much for the second point that intrigues.
The whole thing is quite oppressive; especially in the scene where one has to be silent. What unfortunately mars the film is the very mediocre acting, which may also be due to the fact that all characters are slightly tipsy and hysterical (which in itself can be understandable in such a situation, but it was annoying). And furthermore I want to complain about the police officer who turns out not to be dead after all and who is supremely killing two other characters at the moment. The whole concept may be improbable; within the universe of the movie I think it's unlikely it will reappear anyway and that's why it bothers me.
Despite this, I like the ending here a bit better than El Hoyo, which looked a bit better and where the acting was better. The final verdict is the same: 4*.
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Noodless
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- 10053 messages
- 6185 votes
After many years, I watched it again and the film still managed to surprise me. On the one hand, the mathematical approach to the traps and the surprising denouement at the end that puts the whole thing in the right perspective.
The film naturally revolves outside the traps on the mutual conflicts between the various characters, although this takes a while. Seems logical to me, given their condition and their backgrounds. The fact of the cube with all those different rooms and shifts continues to intrigue. Maybe now as a whole less powerful, but I still stick with score from the past. 7/10
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