Claustrophobic sci-fi thriller on a tubi is a trap you don’t want to be caught in

By Robert Scucci
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Long before escape rooms became a common way to blow $ 100 and spoil your Saturday night, many of us were introduced on the wrong side of their 30s to the concept through 1997 CubeWhich, in retrospect, acts as a soluble-although deadly-although the strip-based attractions we are familiar with today. The only difference between modern escape rooms, and the prison title six sides of our characters find themselves in this cult sci-fi horror flic, is that the only escape from the cube is death … unless you are smart enough to crack the code and grab your way back to daylight.

Time and claustrophobic with a healthy hint of nihilism, Cube Falls to the high/suspicious concept operating wheel house, as the special effects and set set design have a first -class set, but the dialogue often suffers from single -dimensional minds that certainly move the story forward, but that they do not offer much substance on the way.

The worst type of room escape

Cube Focusing on five perfect strangers – and that one man who is immediately killed in the first scene – who wakes up with no memory of how they were imprisoned in the scattered death trap and seems endless.

Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint), a police officer, is presented to a Nihilistic Office worker David (David Hewlett), Mathematics student Joan Leaven (Nicole de Boer), free clinic doctor Helen Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), and the famous Rennes (Wayne Robson) escape artist, whose allegation to fame manages to escape seven prisons.

Rennes, who finds the group during his attempt to escape himself, explains to everyone how each of the rooms inside the cube can be trapped Booby or not, Joan Surmises has to do with whether the rooms are identified with a prime number after “throwing a boot the first into a room and testing your luck and testing your luck.

Along the way, the group meets a man challenged developing a developmentally called Kazan (Andrew Miller), which allows Quentin to tagged unhappy after Helen suggests that everyone is trapped in the cube for a certain reason, and they need to rely on each other to find a suitable escape plan.

No real purpose

David Worth, who reveals that he has unknowingly designed the cube’s external shell before the project is abandoned, provides Joan, which uses his maths skills to calculate that the cube has 17,576 rooms, all of which have their own numerical code likely to determine their location to determine their location at any given time. David has a reason to believe that the cube was an accidental, governmental or private sector project, and that their prison’s only purpose is to justify the cost of the structure, which kills morale and sets Quentin away on authoritarian bending even though it is without power to crack the cube code without everyone’s help.

By Cube Losing points for his stilted and acting dialogue, the concept of the film is just enough to keep you engaged, even if you do not have a reasonable way of checking all Joan’s calculations when flying in real time as the group narrowly escapes death when moving from room to room to room in their quest to make them out alive. And while all character is a one -dimensional archetype, you do not need much more to keep things moving because the suspension is driven by Cub Labyr Environment, not its character development.

Streaming cube on tubi

Earn $ 9 million at the box office against its reported production budget of $ 350,000 CAD, Cube successful enough to spawn a sequence, Cube 2: Hypercubeand prequel, Zero cubewhich received a mixed reception but generally valued by the core fanbase of the original film. He saw a Japanese re -making of the same release 2021, but he had a negative reviews, but it’s worth a complete look if you can’t get enough of that sweet, sweet act.

Fully deserved of its cult-classical status, the original Cube It can be found in free streaming on a tubing like this writing.