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Movie Reviews of Cube
Movie Review: Survival of the fittest
Summary: 5 Stars
As cliche as the title sounds, Darwin's theoretical concept fits pretty well with this movie. 7 people who are wake up in this "place" have no idea how they got there or what the place is. Each person only remembers a portion of their past, but each character has different qualities to help each other figure out why they are where they are, and what they are to do from there. For instance, one girl is a mathematical genius, and another is a doctor, and their qualities come into play during the movie. The group eventually figures out that there is probably a way out of this thing, which only we as the audience know that it is a cube for sure from the beginning. There's enough drama that happens throughout the movie that it is very interesting. It's not just people simply going through different passageways. But it's what they do in the cube and how they react, and all the discoveries they make about themselves and the cube that make this movie intriguing. You being to wonder if everyone will make it out of the cube, if there is a way out of the cube, and what happens after the cube. You have to watch to find out. This is one of the most excellent movies done on a low budget that I have seen so far.
After you see this movie, you can skip Cube 2 and watch Cube Zero first! Watching Cube Zero becomes such a twist between the two movies and the movie itself! It will also help tie some ends together (and creates new scenarios to think about too!)
It's a must see for Cube fans alike!! That is all I can tell you without spoiling anything!
Movie Review: How would YOU behave in the 'cube'?
Summary: 5 Stars
The first fifteen minutes of cube make you wonder... oh NO, this is another blair rip-off project: no plot, bad acting, why on earth is it getting a lot of praise? You wonder if you live on the same planet as the people who told you 'Cube' was great.Then it really starts. The acting gets much better, or maybe you just didn't know how to enjoy it from the start. While the story gets more and more thrilling, the 'cube-people' show more and more of their personnality. You love them. You fear for them. You have your personal favorite among the team, or you admire one for its behaviour... These people exhibit patterns you surely have seen before. And then, you start to realize they behave like some people you know or have met.... in small touches or in the 'big picture'. This is the most exciting thing about 'Cube'.
What about the story? we don't care much about it, there's no need to. The story is there to showcase how people behave when they're pushed till the edge. Nevertheless there's a brilliance in creating such a thrilling atmosphere with so little scenery/storyline, i find that amazing.
Yet this is not a movie for everyone. If you're looking for a standard movie with a guy who saves the world & gets the girl and/or money, go buy armageddon (yes i'm being caricatural, but i met people like that...). If you like being pleasantly surprised while watching a movie, go for it. It would be a safe assumption to say that if you liked 'The Beach' (how they want their own happiness regardless of inhabitants health), you'll enjoy 'Cube'.
Movie Review: Intelligent science fiction at its best!
Summary: 5 Stars
Cube, a low budget Canadian flim, is a masterwork that shows it isn't necessary for a production to have millions of CGI effects to produce an atmospheric and effective movie. The movie focuses on the interactions of six strangers who find themselves trapped in a series of cubes as they attempt to find a way out. Along the way they dodge a number of life threatening traps. All the while the characters interactions grow more paranoid and distrusting of each other until they conflict breaks out. The dialogue ranges from the outlandish to the sublimely bitting, in particular Worth's commentary on the possible reason for Cube. The ending is a downbeat but suits the tone of the movie. The acting is good and whilst the characters are to some extent ciphers the situation that they find themselves in doesn't really need more then the archetypical characters that we get. Of the cast Nicole De Boer and David Hawlett are the standouts and get the best lines and growth. What does it all mean? Part of the appeal of the movie is that it doesn't give you any easy answers; instead it functions as sociological Rorschach test, is it a critique of the mechanistic nature of society today? An allegorical, cautionary tale on the need for humanity to come together to progress? A tale of moving from purgatory to heaven? In the end the movie allows all these interpretations and more. Ultimately this is a not a movie that is easy to watch or like but if you do stick with it then it can reward you with a film that is a brutal commentary on society.Movie Review: Unsettling and unforgettable
Summary: 5 Stars
A mixed group of people wake up to find that they are confined in a 3D maze of cube-shaped rooms with horrific traps in some and not in others. This movie has a highly unusual premise in the sense that you don't know HOW or WHY but you just know that it IS and it must be dealt with - confused? See the movie and you will understand.
One facet of this movie is a play on the idea that we might have no idea why something is, but we find that we have to deal with it anyway. In this case, the characters are in a perilous situation, where doing nothing means death by starvation and doing something is likely to also result in death by ghastly trap.
The characters seem fairly stereotypical and the acting is a bit lame to begin with, but perseverence in watching this movie results in a genuinely disturbing experience. The absorbed viewer will feel hope, despair, joy, horror, anger, extreme tension and more - the feeling of being trapped, isolated and slowly going paranoid has rarely been manipulated so well as in this movie. Ironic then that all the action takes place in an inexplicable and stifling rat's maze where very little is explicitly shown to the viewer, and yet so much is implicitly revealed in the interactions of the trapped people and how they come to terms with their plight.
Highly recommended to anyone who really likes their movies and not recommended to those who prefer their thought of the day handed to them on a plate.
Movie Review: Cube was a great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great movie. True the Cube was a trap but it showed the greatest danger was the people inside.
If you do an indepth look you will realize all the names of th epeople inside the cube are names of prisons in 4 different countries, and furthermore their personalities decribe what the prison is like.
Kazan (autisic guy) come from Kazan Prion in Russia which is a psychiatric prison
Alderson comes from Alderson prison in West Virginia. This prison commonly uses isolation as a punishment. Alderson died alone having never ran into anyone.
Rennes comes from Rennes Prison In France. Rennes was kinda the groups mentor. He showed them 2 tips on how to survive, the
group took these as policy. Rennes Prison is where most of modern prison policy originated.
Holloway comes from Holloway Prison in England. Holloway is a prison for women
Leaven And Worth come from Leavenworth Prison in Kansas
Leavenworth has stict rules so does math wicj Leaven is a whiz at.
Leavenworth was bulit corportely by architects. Worth was an architect.
Quentin comes from San Quentin prison in California. Both Quentin's are brutal.
The makes of this movie really did their home work to make those connections.
The plot was good also, total strangers with their memory of how they got there wiped out have to rely on each other to survive.