1998 · thriller · sci-fi · mystery
Cube
Directed by Vincenzo Natali1h 30m1998
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
Our read: Cube (1998) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · sci-fi · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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How Cube feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want strangers trapped in a deadly shifting maze solving deadly puzzles to survive.”
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