Yesterday I saw Room, today I see Cube, two films that despite having very different stories and also being of different genres have something common, and that is dealing with confinement, being captured and locked up against our will, and be introduced into a space from which you have to escape. In a certain way human nature is inclined to freedom, and some films try to take advantage of that desire to create the propitious conditions for a story, here one of them, let's see.

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Year: 1997 Category: Science-Fiction, Horror. Director: Vincenzo Natali. Cast: Maurice Dean Wint, Nicole de Boer, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Nicky Guadagni, Wayne Robson, Julian Richings.

Plot

A group of people are locked in a mechanized cube that is divided into a large number of rooms in the form of cubes, most of them with deadly traps.

Opinion

The first thing we see in the film is how a person is in a cube-shaped room, which has 6 doors, one on each side, that allow him to access another apparently identical room but with a different color. However, some rooms have deadly traps almost impossible to evade, something we can witness when that person dies in a very gore way.

Later we see how a group of people gather in a room, formed by Quentin McNeil, a highly aggressive policeman, Joan Leaven, an intelligent and young student, David Worth, a malcontent who claims to be an office worker, Dr Helen Holloway, a free clinic doctor, Rennes, who is an escape artist who has gotten out of seven prisons, and Kazan, an autistic.

None of them knows how they got to that situation, while some think has been the government, another think they are part of the perverse game of some man with a lot of money, even go so far as to claim that nobody in particular has put them in that situation.

So while the film progresses the spectator is a silent witness of how these different characters try to escape from the cube, before it kills them, or before they kill each other.

The film is directed in an acceptable way, this is the first work I see of Vincenzo Natali, who does it well, but nothing special really. The script was in charge of André Bijelic, Graeme Manson and Vincenzo Natali, and like the direction work is acceptable, but not special. The performances are regular, there is no good performance in the film, but neither are bad, the film does not stand out for the technical quality but rather for the originality of the story to create that closed space full of traps and from which it seems impossible to leave.

In short, it is a film that can be seen although I did not find anything special, maybe I missed something but I do not know.

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Score

6/10

Regular film, nothing special, but entertaining, some will enjoy this movie more than others, I feel that this time depends much more on the observer than on the work done by the technical team.