J K
This review contains spoilers, not that it should matter to you, you shouldn’t watch the movie.
Going into this as a fan of the original Cube, you may begin to feel emotions such as excitement, or possibly hope. The hope that this movie could possibly be an improvement to an already decent horror/suspense film with an interesting and original concept. Boy will you be disappointed, after the first several minutes, the movie trails off from the inspirations of it’s predecessor to a mountain of overly played emotionally dead side stories and nonsense behavior from the characters that will have you asking yourself, who is being tortured more? The characters on screen before me, or myself for sitting through an hour and a half of mounting disappointment. The rules of the Cubes are not consistent, and not explained, traps taking wildly varying time frames to activate, or responding the emotions of the most unstable character but no one else. The last door remained open, and then moved away without closing for such an exorbitant amount of time that I probably could have watched the original cube, just like you should instead of watching this movie.
Also, its ending has been set up to allow for a sequel, so, that’s just the final cherry on the most disappointing sundae to ever be served at an abused child’s birthday party.
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05/12/24
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Elaine H
Loved this movie. Great acting. Interesting story line.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
04/14/24
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Joseph Z
This will need a redo. Skipping over the only one language that doesn't match Cube 1, 2, and Zero, they could have done better on graphics and so original gore kill. I would have expected Cube 3 to continue IZON's mystery story. Instead just a repeat of Cube 1 in a forget the language issue.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
12/26/23
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Ricardo d
Esse é um daqueles filmes que não tem sentido de existir. Daqueles que pensamos: quem aprovou o roteiro, qual o sentido de se fazer um remake, quem escalou os atores, e por ai vai...Fuja do título...só cai neste Cubo, pois gosto do conceito da trilogia original.
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10/05/23
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Brendan J
I wanted to love this but ended up liking it. The changes made in this reimagining a somewhat questionable, but there have definitely been worse films in the franchise.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
05/26/23
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Theron R
Video Review: youtu.be/BvJzTHtIb20
Were you a big SyFy Channel fan back in the late 90s? Cause if you were, then it's pretty impossible that you wouldn't have heard of the massive hit for the channel, Cube. A precursor to Saw in a lot of ways, Cube told the story of a group of people who were placed in some sort of futuristic prison like structure where every room they entered could potentially some sort of deadly trap, designed to keep them all inside. The franchise had 2 more films (sequel and a prequel) released in the years since the original film, but recognition of the gruesome series has largely died down as SyFy's programming has understandably changed in the almost 30 years since. This makes it all the more interesting that it was chosen for a new adaptation, remakes aren't anything new in the world of horror, but usually it's something a bit more high profile.
I really enjoy the Cube franchise, but being honest, it's not one I find myself revisiting all too often, not to mention that the lore of the films make doing a remake a bit on the pointless side. By that I mean that these stories don't have to be particularly deep, take a new group of people and throw them in, it's the main reason why Koji Tokuo and Yasuhiko Shimizu's remake doesn't fall flat, but still spurs the question of why.
A group of people awaken and find themselves trapped in a structure where any room could kill them at a moment's notice. With no information, no supplies, and only each other to rely on, can these survivors find a way to freedom? If you're familiar with any of the previous films, than this will likely sound familiar to what you've come to expect from the franchise. For brand new fans watching this as their first entry into the series, Cube is likely to be reminiscent of other recent killer room films like Escape Room, The Platform, and Circle. Where it falters in comparison for those films though is building our connection to the characters we're following, we know that there's a good chance that a lot of the characters we're watching are going to end up being brutally killed in a number of different ways, but having a good investment in these characters makes it hurt more and makes us care when they go. Cube doesn't exactly hit the mark when it comes to this. Instead it relies on our feeling about certain character tropes in horror films that we might be more concerned about (children and older folks) in hope of building an investment in the small group.
This worked more efficiently in the original as one character became the antagonist of sorts much earlier on and gave viewers an easy outlet to direct their anger at as traps were set, in addition another character had a loose connection to the Cube itself and this played somewhat into their motivation of moving through the various rooms. Our film here doesn't feature anything as overt, there is a character who ultimately does become an antagonist of sorts, but it comes far later in the film, and his motivation is much more justified which makes it hard to compare him to Quentin from the original film. Our lead character Goto (Masaki Suda, Kamen Rider) is also given a tragic backstory which our Cube will surely give an opportunity to rectify, but this also gives him more conviction. Worth (played by David Hewlett in the original) had helped to design the cube and felt regret and remorse for the role he played which motivated him to do what he could to help save the others. Goto isn't given any of the same loose threads, and is instead motivated by the acts of the others around him that spur him to be the hero they need to escape. It mostly works, and Goto IS given a chance to redeem the faults of his past, but given how the story doesn't follow the events of the original verbatim, you may be left feeling that the way his story ends is a bit hollow.
Cube certainly is bloody, most of the traps involves things being cut, poked, stabbed, or ripped away from the prisoners, and as their prison adapts and evolves around them, it's fun seeing the different ways it continues to punish everyone throughout the story. As I haven't watched the films lately, I can't say with certainty that all the traps featured were ones in the original film, I have a fairly big suspicion that some might have been pulled from the subsequent 2 films that followed. If that is the case, Cube still manages to put together a small greatest hits of some of the most gruesome traps shown. Seriously, whoever designed this prison should absolutely do some partner work with John Kramer in Saw X, but you know…in the past, because Kramer is dead and he has an apprenti-okay not the point.
I'd imagine that Cube is going to serve as a franchise starter, the end leaves it very open for an infinite amount of sequels, and even though I don't feel that this film necessarily needs to exist, I enjoyed following from room to room and wouldn't mind seeing the next story set in the spiraling maze of death.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
05/10/23
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