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Cube (1997)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett
Genre: Sci Fi, Thriler
Length 90 minutes
Seven complete strangers wake up trapped inside a cube like maze. Each of the seven people have vastly different back grounds and skills. As they try to escape the cube prison they find that some of the individual cubes have a death device in them. Which makes escaping very dangerous!
Cube is a very interesting movie. I liked the concept of the giant cube maze who's design is a mystery to the unfortunate people trapped there. Are they trapped by aliens? or the CIA? or what? It's a mystery that they and us try to figure out.
I liked the art direction, the way the sets looked, very cool. And if you think about it the cubes could have looked a million different ways, the design they went with was very simple, yet effective.
I also liked the makeup department or in this case the lack of makeup. Now think about that, how often do you see actresses in a movie with no make up at all? But in the Cube Nicole de Boer is ala natural. I found the lack of make up refreshing and it made these people look like real people under stress, they look gnarly.
I thought the script could have had more depth and detail and some of the plot developments where standard fare, but it still works and keeps you interested and the whole idea of people trapped in this cube maze works well.
I was happy to see Nicole deBoer in this, she played a very similar role two years earlier in an episode of Outer Limits 'Quality of Mercy'. She was also a cast member on Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
'Quality of Mercy' The Outer Limits (1995)
By a simple use of colored lights each cube cell had its on vibe going on. Some of the cubes contain a deadly surprise too. Don't blink in the first few seconds or you will miss someone meeting their demise.
Overall the Cube was an enjoyable film to watch.
Cube (1997)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett
Genre: Sci Fi, Thriler
Length 90 minutes
Seven complete strangers wake up trapped inside a cube like maze. Each of the seven people have vastly different back grounds and skills. As they try to escape the cube prison they find that some of the individual cubes have a death device in them. Which makes escaping very dangerous!
Cube is a very interesting movie. I liked the concept of the giant cube maze who's design is a mystery to the unfortunate people trapped there. Are they trapped by aliens? or the CIA? or what? It's a mystery that they and us try to figure out.
I liked the art direction, the way the sets looked, very cool. And if you think about it the cubes could have looked a million different ways, the design they went with was very simple, yet effective.
I also liked the makeup department or in this case the lack of makeup. Now think about that, how often do you see actresses in a movie with no make up at all? But in the Cube Nicole de Boer is ala natural. I found the lack of make up refreshing and it made these people look like real people under stress, they look gnarly.
I thought the script could have had more depth and detail and some of the plot developments where standard fare, but it still works and keeps you interested and the whole idea of people trapped in this cube maze works well.
I was happy to see Nicole deBoer in this, she played a very similar role two years earlier in an episode of Outer Limits 'Quality of Mercy'. She was also a cast member on Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
'Quality of Mercy' The Outer Limits (1995)
By a simple use of colored lights each cube cell had its on vibe going on. Some of the cubes contain a deadly surprise too. Don't blink in the first few seconds or you will miss someone meeting their demise.
Overall the Cube was an enjoyable film to watch.