Sunday, April 19, 2020

Movie Review: "Cube Zero" 10/15/04

This is my movie review for "Cube Zero", originally released at the Screamfest Film Festival (USA) on October 15, 2004.  I watched this via Tubi on July 16, 2019.




Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Run Time: 1 Hour and 37 Minutes

Trailer







Notable Cast


Zachary Bennett ... Eric Wynn
David Huband ... Dodd
Stephanie Moore ... Cassandra Rains




Plot


Third installment of the Cube trilogy and this one is a "prequel" but yet isn't. This one shows workers outside of the Cube and a group inside of the Cube. How did this situation get set up like this? Why are those inside of the Cube there? Is there a way out and, if so, is there a way for "forgiveness"?






Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated


Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.


3/5 - Decent Cube movie diving into the people behind the scenes of the Cube; good sci-fi prison movie but better understanding of the "guards" instead of the prisoners. The trials that the "criminals" face (before being put in the prison) were not shown, so they might have been kangaroo courts. The consent forms (which told the government that they were okay for them to be sent to the Cube) look like they might have been signed when applying for work/military, so watch out for that. The set up of the government/leadership seemed far too strict and far too mysterious but would be interesting to learn more of how they got to that point of society to drop people into this death maze prison.


The whole movie seemed to focus on the fact that the one "guard" had a thing for one of the "prisoners". He watched her from outside the Cube and then decided to go into it to help get her out, which is really dumb in my opinion. The traps then get worse once he gets into the Cube because "oh, they know I'm here".

For a prequel, this movie sucked because it didn't give much new information to give the first movie ("Cube" 1997) more meaning. It was a semi decent stand alone movie but I personally won't be jumping up to volunteer to watch it again.


Anyways, that's my movie review. Thanks for reading! More movie reviews to come eventually.



~ Gracie Mae DeLunac





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