A claustrophobic, suffocating film set in the unexplained domain of a cube containing six people. Each person doesn't remember how they got their or know who is in charge and the purpose of the cube. Their only motive is to escape alive. Each room that is contained within the cube has exits to others, some safe, some filled with murderous traps. The film plays as a character study, studying the shifting base of power from intellectualism through to primative brute force, the dominance of the survival instinct at the expense of all else. It shows the power of stripping away civilisation and how we are fundamnetally unable to cooperate at our own expense. The horror is in the lack of explanation, the unremitting sense of purposelessness. Confined and conflicting the group make their way periliously through the cube, each person having some characteristic necessary to survival. However this isn't morality story or a film about how groups are better than inidividuals, the individuals selfishness comes through showing the exact opposite. Without giving the ending away, only pure innocence seems to be some kind of answer offered. However in not even providing the question to begin with, the film provides the endless riddle seen in something like the more superior The Prisoner. A fantastic concept that was let down by an unhelpful ending. In fact, the ending will have you shouting at the screen and threatening to throw the TV out of the window such is its effect. However, the film will linger in your mind and is fairly unique in its premise, even if the delivery can't quite match ut. 8/10.
Special Thanks to Mark Coyle for this Movie Review.