I never thought I'd see this movie again. I haven't seen it since the 90s when it was on the SciFi channel. It holds up SO WELL. Not just the effect but the characters honestly. With a few issues regarding Andrew Miller's Kazan who is supposed to be a savant autistic person. There's some language regarding that which would be appropriate potentially even in the context.

But this is a movie about tension. Our characters wake up in a cube made up of many smaller cube rooms and some of them have death traps. Even knowing who lived the tension is there and at times I would forget that this character or that character wouldn't survive.

Our characters struggle with each other and with the maze. They develop in utterly fascinating ways as they start out a mostly cohesive group and then tighten into different groups. Then they tighten beyond those groups into individuals who can barely stand to work together. They fight over whether to look up and figure out why they were selected or look downward and try to figure out what to do next. Little do they know in the only micro spoiler I'll give that they need to do both.

It's very reasonably acted and though the low budget affects somethings like minor continuity between rooms. But this is an action that is taken so often that it's easy enough to gloss over. Beyond that this movie is pure character.

Very, very, very good. A cult film. The very simple concept is perfectly suited to the mystery. The design of the cube is rich enough to be interesting for 1h30, but not too busy either. It remains mysterious with its complex door system. The progression in the film works very well, you can feel them moving forward as they have ideas. The function of the characters is well defined for the most part: the math student, the doctor, the cop, the gifted autistic, the king of escape... [spoiler] Only the architect, who apparently built the hull of the cube, is not very well defined. It is not clear at what level he designed the cube. He explains very poorly how he was contacted to make the cube and under what conditions. That's the only criticism I have of the film. [/spoiler] Otherwise, not saying anything at the end is fine. It's typically the kind of film, like The Truman Show, that can't accept a sequel. There were two sequels. Can you imagine a sequel to The Truman Show where we follow Truman's life outside the dome? It would be useless. It's the same here. There is however a Cube 2 and a Cube 3 where you can see the outside. The consequences are therefore of no interest, I advise against them.