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Release Date: 26 January, 1999 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $11.24 You SAVE: $3.74! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
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Wonderful Idea - Poor Execution
This is an interesting movie in many ways. The basic theme is fantastic. A number of individuals are somehow abducted and placed in a giant Rubiks cube in essence. Supposedly there are thousands of rooms in the structure, each room with six exits and may containing lethal traps. The idea is to figure out which rooms have traps and which rooms lead to the exit. Another twist is that the rooms also move on a regular basis. I am not sure if the movie concept is original to this film or has been taken from somewhere else but it was enough to make me want to see it without any reviews from elsewhere. Where the movie fails terribly is in the story. Instead on being able to follow this group as they heroically try to escape this fiendish trap the film shows the characters fighting and killing each other. I understand that being trapped in this situation would be stressful for anybody but I think that most people would want to escape rather than assaulting and murdering their fellow prisoners. The movie focuses on this conflict rather than their environment or the attempt to escape. One of the character essentially goes "postal"; this almost makes the movie just another typical violent gorefest. The brilliant premise of the movie and the environment are not exploited to anywhere near their potential. I would much rather have had a plot line where there was of course stress amongst the characters but they were still able to work together. Thus I give the movie 3 stars for a novel and outstanding concept but zero for the actual film.
A Pleasant Surprise...
....we'll get to that in a minute.
First - the movie "Cube":
Somewhat disappointing to me, it started out great though. The special effects were excellent, and the traps were extremely scary. But the problem is that it only showed a few traps being set off, and all those were in the first half of the movie. The rest of the movie focused more on the paranoia, fear, and desperation of the remaining characters. And shows what each character has to offer to help the others escape.
Not a bad movie at all, I'd give it 3 or 4 stars. The reason I gave this DVD 5 stars? That's the pleasant surprise.
On the second side of this DVD it had ANOTHER movie - "Love and a .45"
I would have bought it separately if I had seen it earlier. But as luck would have it I got it for free. Look it up here or at imdb.com for more info on that movie, I'm not going to do a review for it here, sorry.
So this was definitely worth buying for me. 2 good movies for the price of 1 !!
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