Cube

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Summary: Cube
Review: I found this to be a lesson in human behavior as well as a cool sci-fi movie.

This movie is a classic case study to the response of an individual, group, or species to its environment, involving action and response to the cube, both inside and out.

The cube brings out the deeply hidden feelings (both good and bad) in humans. To understand the cube, we must first understand ourselves.

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Summary: enduring favorite
Review: It's a fantastic, original story that goes well beyond anything done for the B genre. If you like to think that there have been weird experiments done to humans for weird reasons, and you happen to love sci-fi, CUBE is not to be missed. One of my top ten movies along with Starship Troopers, Timecop, 5'th element and Dune.

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Summary: An Excellent Movie, if...
Review: you understand it for what it is supposed to be. I have exposed several people to this movie who got to the end, and said, "So?" Well, they didn't get it. The thing that separates this from your average Hollywood release is that this is an intense character sketch with a lot of information that needs to be carefully considered. In addition, the themes of the movie need to be examined. There is a lot of subtextual (as it were) information in this movie that you need to understand and consider before you can properly decide if you like this movie or not.

I think that one of my favorite parts of this movie though is the ending. It jibes extremely well with my own particular worldview, and I think that the ending reinforces what Worth was saying throughout the movie. The movie is very suspenseful, well made, and the ending rocks.

I highly recommend this movie with other luminaries, like Fight Club, Chasing Amy, The Crow, and Donnie Darko. Check them all out, think, and you will realize that the world isn't as Damned as we may like to believe.

Harkius

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Summary: Take It For What It's Worth
Review: This film has been analyzed and psychoanalyzed. It defies what most of us expect from a sci-fi film with high tech special effects and gadgetry. However, critics and reviewers should leave it as it is...It's a suspenseful sci-fi thriller with no answers.Period.It's a piece of sci-fi cinema, that if you think about it, let's the viewer participate by guessing and analyzing just as much as the characters trapped in the enigmatic cube... So-so acting and not much else to ponder other than all the questions viewers have been left with...you will either love the film or hate it...Maybe both...Find all the symbolisms you want or just be brain-numbed by the experience of watching Cube !

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Summary: A mind numbing experiance
Review: If your looking for a straight forward sci-fi movie then skip this movie.
However if you enjoy thought provoking movies your in for a treat.
The movie pits people who have never met before nor seem to have anything in common together, Or do they ?
Each person in the movie awakens to find theirselves in a square shaped room not knowing how they got there.
The room has doors on all sides but all but one lead to death, The trick is to pick the right door.
It is here that people from different walks of life meet and try to figure a way out of the cube that holds them hostage.
This movie is a study of human nature and how it respondes to adversity. The roles played by the actors are well written and directed. This movie is a fine example of what can be done on a limited budget. I gave this movie four out of five stars.

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Summary: Good but bad acting is very distracting
Review: I wanted to really like this movie. I thought the idea was a good one. But the acting was absolutely hideous. It distracted me to a point where I was about to actually stop watching the movie. I also thought that the cop character was a little unbelievable...Anyways, the idea was good, the acting [was not].

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Summary: Great movie for only one room...
Review: Not many people could come up with such a great movie only using a single room. Not many people could come up with ANY movie only using a single room. Vincenzo Natali gives us a great view of what can be done with only a handful of unknown actors, a low budget, and one cubic room.

Here's how it starts: all the characters wake up in different cubed rooms, which we assume are all part of one giant cube (which is later confirmed). They come together and must figure out how to survive long enough to get out of a seemingly endless maze of room, all colored differently. Did I mention that some rooms are boobytrapped?

Now they have to navigate the rooms, figuring out along the way where they should go and how to avoid the traps. Right when they think they've got it figured out, something pops up that proves them wrong. The group starts to get desperate after a while with no food or water.

The movie plays out like a huge psychological experiment. When the characters are in cool colored rooms such as blue or green, they are calm and don't mind working together. But, when they are in warm colored rooms like red or orange (which seems to happen more often near the end of the movie), they become aggitated and easily annoyed.

Thankfully, the only information the writers give away about the Cube is what we need to know to survive, and all the rest is left for us to ponder. Who made it? How did they make it? Why did they make it? All of these questions are left unanswered.

While the ending angered many people, I thought it was just right. The acting went over well, although Maurice Dean Wint (Quentin) may have been a bit overbearing, and the character, I thought, was a little too quick to anger.

All in all, an excellent movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat, as well as have you asking questions when it is done. It is definitely in my top 10. If you like your movies logical and totally wrapped up at the end, however, this won't be for you.

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Summary: Low budget and sci-fi at its best
Review: Let me start out this review by starting with questions. What is cube?Where is the cube? What is the purpose of the cube? Who made the cube?How big is the cube? Is there a way out? Cube is about a group of six people who wake up in this cube looking for a way out. Each person has theirr strengths and weaknesses. I sum up cube as six lab mice are put in a huge maze (with square rooms some with traps) as part of some scientific experiment is this the answer? Your cast consists of a doctor, an engineer, an escape artist, student, a cop, and an autistic all who just want one thing to escape, but maybe just maybe one of them knows more than they are telling. Who is it and what do they know? Great suspense, the cast seems real,unique traps, a must buy or at least rent( rent at least once you may be surprised how good it is if you give it a chance) because it may not be for everyone.Some thinking is required to see the solutions to the maze. and I am not telling if anyone gets out cause I don't want to spoil this movie and I want to watch it again. Don't let this low budget movie pass you buy, just cause it is a low budget movie doesn't mean it is no good in fact it is even better than some of the big budget movies out there.Cube is one movie that isn't square. You still reading this review? Stop wasting time go rent Cube NOW!!!

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Summary: AWESOME! INSANE SCI-FI AT IT'S BEST!
Review: This is probably one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. Now before you go and judge this movie based on the sypnosis, six strangers who wake up in a cube full of deathtraps with no way out, and start thinking that this is a bad movie, i want to explain to you that the point of this movie is to get your brain working and thinking. Ho did the people get in the cube? Who built the cube? Where is the cube? These unanswered questions are what keeps the movie going, and with every second you want an explanation, you find yourself loving the movie.
In the cube are six people, a doctor, a maniacal cop, a mentally ill guy, a teen math genius, an escape artist, and a quiet loner dude who mysteriously keeps to himself and knows more about the cube than anyone else. Its intense and keeps you on the edge of your seat as you wait and see who gets by the trap and who doesn't (i almost had a heart attack when they found the sound sensored room, youll understand when you see it) The end is also cool, wait till you find out who survives...

SEE THIS MOVIE......if you don't, well you are missing out on some great entertainment.

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Summary: stupid people need not watch
Review: I remember watching this film when my wife and her friend walked in. It was about 2/3 over so I filled them in on what had happened already. They asked me a bunch of questions like how did the characters get in the cube, who built the cube and why was it built? The characters themselves only have a vauge idea of what is going on, which I explained to my female counterparts. Well, they found that totally unacceptable. They wanted to know how the movie could possibly present them with this immense object but not properly explain it. I tried to tell them that the origin and purpose of the cube was not important. It was mearly a plot device in which to explore the relationships between the characters and exploit their forced intimacy.
The two of them stared at me blankly.
In an act of the purist optimism, I compared it to "Lifeboat" in that all the players were forced to interact in a confined space under less than ideal circumstances.
The two of them got up and left, muttering something about this being the dumbest movie they'd ever heard of.
I suggested they watch something more their speed. "Snow Dogs" perhaps.