Cube
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A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
What critics thought
Cube lands in genuinely mixed territory: critics agreed the central premise is gripping and the direction disciplined, but split sharply over whether the characters and dialogue are strong enough to sustain it. The film's refusal to explain itself reads as either admirable restraint or a frustrating dead end, depending on who you ask.
“If writer-director Vincenzo Natali, storyboard artist for Keanu Reeves's Johnny Mnemonic, were as comfortable with dialogue and dramatizing characters as he is with images, this first feature of his might have worked better”
Bob Graham·San Francisco Chronicle
“winds up going nowhere fast”
Nick Schager·Slant Magazine
“proves surprisingly gripping, in the best Twilight Zone tradition. The ensemble cast does an outstanding job on the cinematic equivalent of a bare stage”
Anita Gates·The New York Times
“Too many low-budget sci-fi films try for epic scope and fail; this one concentrates on making the best of what it's got and does it well”
Kim Newman·Empire Online
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- none
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
Cube
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
What critics thought
Cube lands in genuinely mixed territory: critics agreed the central premise is gripping and the direction disciplined, but split sharply over whether the characters and dialogue are strong enough to sustain it. The film's refusal to explain itself reads as either admirable restraint or a frustrating dead end, depending on who you ask.
“If writer-director Vincenzo Natali, storyboard artist for Keanu Reeves's Johnny Mnemonic, were as comfortable with dialogue and dramatizing characters as he is with images, this first feature of his might have worked better”
Bob Graham·San Francisco Chronicle
“winds up going nowhere fast”
Nick Schager·Slant Magazine
“proves surprisingly gripping, in the best Twilight Zone tradition. The ensemble cast does an outstanding job on the cinematic equivalent of a bare stage”
Anita Gates·The New York Times
“Too many low-budget sci-fi films try for epic scope and fail; this one concentrates on making the best of what it's got and does it well”
Kim Newman·Empire Online
Parents guide
- Violence
- severe
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- none
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
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