IMDb plot summary: A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.
Directed by Vincenzo Natali. Stars Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, and David Hewlett.
Cube is a psychological horror thriller in which a group of strangers wake up to discover that they have all been kidnapped and placed inside a maze of giant cubes full of deadly traps. The group bands together to solve the puzzle of their prison and escape. I really enjoy single concept horror films set in small enclosed spaces, but what really makes that work is if the characterization, dialogue, and acting all hold up to the challenge. It reminds me of a black box theater play in the amount of precise intelligent writing it requires to make that work. And this doesn't have that. The dialogue makes me roll my eyes, and when most of the movie is dialogue with an occasional gory death in there, I really need it to keep me connected to the characters. There are some very cool images, particularly as they reached the outer edges of the cube, and some inventively gross deaths, but neither of those quite make up for the bizarre writing.
🎥 Cube (1998)
📊 Ranked #3075/4251 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 31
lost to Raising Arizona (held at #2153)
beat Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (held at #3211)
lost to Avengers: Age of Ultron (#2678 → #2680)
lost to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (#2947 → #2890)
beat Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (#3078 → #3086)
lost to FernGully: The Last Rainforest (#3013 → #2909)
lost to The Fighter (#3045 → #3037)
beat Analyze This (#3062 → #3061)
beat A Soldier's Sweetheart (#3053 → #3067)
lost to The Fifth Element (#3049 → #3043)
lost to Hiroshima Mon Amour (#3051 → #3039)
lost to Whisper of the Heart (held at #3052)
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