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.