It’s been a while since I’ve done a movie review but this one’s so unique that it’s worth mentioning.

It’s the kind of movie that I both love and hate, because it both challenges and frustrates me. In this case it’s far more good than bad, because it’s so engrossing. The premise is that 7 people get trapped somehow in a cube. A cube of square rooms, not knowing where they are in the cube or how they got there. Some of the rooms are trapped, going into them is imminent death. The people are all very different in background and personality, the flick has its share of psychological skirmish. But most perplexing is the configuration of the cube and how they are trying to get out of it. Along the way of course we find out something about each person and they all influence in each other in how they respond to the evolving situation.

I’m not a fan of gore stuff and there isn’t that much of it in the movie (at least considering how much more there potentially could be) but that’s the major downside for me. I’m also not satisfied by the ending, of course I rarely am even with stories less complicated than this one. But the story being told is fascinating and I can see it being one of those times where every viewer takes something unique out of it, because the backdrop is so abstract that you simply have to set your own reference points.

The most interesting movie I’ve seen in quite some time. It’s a Canadian low budget production btw, which could explain why it is so interesting rather than something out of Hollywood.

8/10