Cube

Directed by Vincenzo Natali  and written by Andre Bijelic and Vincenzo Natali this 1997 Canadian horror/mystery/sci-fi had a bizarre and thought-provoking story. They also managed to keep its audience’s attention on a ride of fear, paranoia and desperation despite a tight budget of only $365,000 Canadian dollars. It boggles my mind though at how smoothly they were able to take us on this journey all contained in one small box?

One would think the acting by Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean-Wint, David Hewlett, Nicky Guadagni and Andrew Miller would be phenomenal; but sadly they all were quite the opposite and horrendously over-the-top. It truly sickened me with their acting abilities and direction or lack-there-of to see how they portrayed each character with specific and colourful personalities.

I do give kudos though for any film-maker ‘making-things-work’ and ‘pulling-the-show-together’ with the enormous amount of constraints and elements already against them! It goes to show that hard-work does not go un-noticed as ‘Cube’ received 13 wins and 6 nominations.

7 complete strangers working through a maze of deadly traps would tickle anyone’s fancy; a couple years later the 'Saw' series of movies was born; but I’m a firm believer in, if you're going to do something, then you might as well do it good. It makes no sense to me, in having a great story and executing it shoddily and worse having nauseating acting abilities.