Cube Zero (2004)

Best movie ever!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The people trapped inside of building having to escape by figuring out puzzles has become overdone. Frankly I am a bit burned out by it all, I stopped watching Saw movies at IV because it got so bad and so far from the original, although not as bad as Halloween 3, which had nothing to do with the first two movies other than the fact it was Halloween.What is different about this movie which made it tolerable to watch was that it concentrated on the technicians who were operating the cube rather than the blood and guts aspect of people getting killed in imaginative fashion, although it does have some of that.The bad guy with the fake eye was almost cartoonish. If you sat through the other two movies and liked them, you know you are going to watch this one anyway, so why are you reading the reviews?No sex or nudity.

8.5 of 10. Although it seems to be intended as a prequel for Cube (1997), this film can stand on its own. The ending provides a scary but amusing twist for dedicated fans of the first film. As a whole, it gives a lot more meaning to the Cube series and creates the closest thing to a 1984-like science fiction film that there is without simply copying it for a screenplay (the film adaptations of Orwell's book 1984 have all been horrible, as if they've been gutted by the DHS/CIA/NSA to prevent interest).Whereas the first and second have more of a horror and fantasy feel along the lines of The Cell (2000), this goes beyond both, encapsulating them without destroying them, even making the second film seem plausible, consistent, and maybe even co-existing with the other Cubes.For those wanting to watch the entire Cube series, this should be watched after Cube, ideally just skipping Cube^2 Hypercube. It provides answers to a lot of things left open (and often misinterpreted by people who wanted to force personal views upon the first film), like what's beyond the light, what, if anything, is controlling the cube, and how do people end up in it. While it seems to be intended as a prequel, it's more like a the ending to a mystery that will make you feel as if you've read the ending of a book first if you watch this before the other 2.Note in looking over the reviews of this, it is ironic how people have their own cubes they operate within and want this film to operate within them. It's also weird to see references to the Saw series, which is a very different story despite sharing similar starting elements. If anything, this makes for a better Matrix than the Matrix or an expanded look into what could be a part of the V for Vendetta world.

Uh....Why make this movie? the guy with the Eye.....OK, THE EYE issue...wtf?? Why do we have a "CHARACTER" actor in this film? Why do we have a sincerely...bizarre laughable, corn ball acted persona??? why is this.....actor hired for this film, his portrayal was goofy, not menacing, not scary, just corn ball strange.WTF??? Btw: the majority of this film was cheap and cheesy THE ONLY good portion was the guy turning into the autistic character seen in the first cube concept in the 90's...

Cube Zero (2004)This movie was a much better sequel then Cube 2, Which was just a waste of time.This had a great opening scenes, very gory start to this movie, which I really liked.The plot was little different of last 2, this times we see what going on in The Cube and also going on outside of the Cube.This was better then Cube 2 but no where near as good as the first movie, The deaths scene in this movie was really nice and gory at times and fun to watch.And I at the end that when I really understood why this was Called Cube Zero and liked how it ended.The acting was really good from the whole cast,6 out of 10