Cube is a 1997 sci-fi/mystery/horror kind of movie about a group of people who awaken inside a giant complex constructed entirely of cube shaped rooms which are identical besides their varying colours. Many of the rooms contain lethal booby traps which they need to avoid using the power of maths. That's the premise! This movie is excellent!
Now, really, the acting and the writing are kind of precariously laughable at times but this only adds to the fun of it all. The dialogue is ridiculous at times, yeah, but it's definitely not banal and the nature of the characters means that even though they are all stereotypes, they can still surprise you which I'll explain in a second. There's a kind of trashy feeling about the whole thing, which is probably obvious from the ridiculous premise but the movie never really descends into stupidity like you might expect it to. It always saves itself just in time. There are awful lines delivered terribly in this film, and then there are great little moments of actual humanity scattered around.
The movie is about shifting dynamics, it's full of them. Each character ends up in a completely different place than how they started. Each stereotype is inverted or swapped for another. A character might be a hero one second and a villain the next. It just rolls along like a rubik's cube and actually manages to avoid feeling disjointed or forced. There's a kind of conceptual unity about everything in the film which is both appealling and cheesey at the same time. Any way you look at it, it's like a puzzle with shifting parts and it's just fun watching them shift and seeing how they do or don't fit together.
I won't go into the actual characters or plot twists because that's what you want to watch, but there's a good mix of people in this and the actors are pretty charasmatic and really melodramatic about the whole thing. There's nobody particularly talented in it, it's got a couple of actors I recognise from other sci-fi things though.
Yeah I really liked this film and I don't think many people have actually seen it. You should see it if this kind of thing interests you. There's alot of quasi-philosophical arguing, conspirarcy theory stuff and mathematics (if you're into mathematics apparently some people are).
Great stuff!
