Review – Cube

Aren’t we Kafka-esque? Isn’t this a brilliant statement about the extremities of human behavior when faced with an implacable, inexplicable, deadly puzzle? Wouldn’t you much rather rent something else? Um, yes to number three. This is a long, drawn-out, high-tech version of the old “what if a handful of archetypal characters were caught in a maze and had to cooperate to get out” scenario. This may be a little better than the usual version, inasmuch as the maze inflicts gory death on anyone who does it wrong. But otherwise we have the usual sad specimens of humanity struggling to use their “unique abilities” in tandem to crack the code and escape this overblown Barker-esque version of a Rubik’s Cube. Wonder-Twin powers, activate! See if desperate