2021 · thriller · mystery · sci-fi
Cube
Directed by Yasuhiko Shimizu1h 48m2021
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.
Our read: Cube (2021) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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How Cube feels to watch.
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“You want a Japanese trapped-in-deadly-maze thriller with shifting rooms and lethal traps.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike repetitive confinement horror or graphic trap deaths.
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