Product description

Cube Zero [DVD] [2004]

Price: £11.28
RRP: £13.99
Average customer rating: 3.5

Binding : DVD
EAN : 7321900985703
Label : Mosaic Movies
Manufacturer : Mosaic Movies
Publisher : Mosaic Movies
Release date : 2005-02-14
Title : Cube Zero [DVD] [2004]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2004-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 94
Studio : Mosaic Movies
Theatrical releaseDate : 2004

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Following the grisly 1997 ICube/I and its 2002 sequel, ICube 2: Hypercube/I, ICube Zero/I stretches the original’s IThe Twilight Zone/I-like, strangers-in-a-box theme a little thin. Fortunately, there's a difference this time. The hero is not just another disoriented captive of the Cube's interconnected--often lethal--rooms, but rather a geek named Eric (Zachary Bennett) who sits in a control station wrestling with his conscience about inflicting misery on innocent people. Taking orders over the phone from some almighty, unknown power in a distant office, Eric reaches a breaking point and enters the maze himself, intent on helping a woman (Stephanie Moore) who doubts his motives. The existential bent of the prior films becomes even more Kafkaesque this time with the arrival of a white-collar team of tormentors, bureaucratic tyrants who can't or won't explain the point of the Cube. Imaginative writer-director Ernie Barbarash rescues what might have been a tedious formula flick. I--Tom Keogh/I

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-06-01 rating:

Very poor
Cube was so good but this seems to be a cheap prequel offering nothing new. Best avoid.

review by: Stalker date: 2008-03-13 rating:

Cube 0
[Slight Spoiler] br /New writer director does his best, giving us an initially interesting perspective from the cube operators' point of view. Unfortunately it's quickly apparent that they know little more than the prisoners about themselves or their situation leading to a totalitarian regime / lab rat explanation which is somewhat obvious pathetic. Wasn't the original point that the cube was the sum of our collective irresponsibility, not the toy of some crackpot dictatorship?

review by: s.vernon date: 2007-10-31 rating:

A DECENT ENTRY
Single woman Cassandra Rains, (Stephanie Moore) wakes up in a large structure with a group of people, Haskell, (Martin Roach) Bartok, (Richard McMillan) Meyerhold, (Mike Nahrgang) and Jellico, (Terri Hawkes) and finds that the entire complex is made up of a series of trapped rooms. Attempting a series of escapes, they find that the structure is a giant cube that contains different rooms. With technicians Eric Wynn, (Zachary Bennett) and Dodd, (David Huband) monitoring them and keeping them from getting too close to escaping, the traps in the rooms pick them off one-by-one. Finally figuring a plot to escape, they make a last ditch effort to escape the trap. br / br /The Good News: There is a couple of really neat things about this film. The cube seems to be brilliantly designed and the traps are rather cool. It's hard to really pick a favorite, as they're all rather nicely designed and filled with some clever ideas that are ingeniously made. The gore is the best part, and this really has a huge amount of the gruesome stuff. A person graphically melts down into bones, a head explodes, face parts melt off, and a body is engulfed in flames, among a couple other pretty gruesome deaths. There's a couple of other minor little things about this one, but they're not worth mentioning. br / br /The Bad News: Aside from the previously mentioned items, this isn't all that interesting. There's very little time spent actually inside the cube, with the majority of it being comprised of action taking place inside the control compound. Even when it becomes a race to save themselves from the traps, we spend a majority of that inside the compound. It becomes very disjointed because of this, since the start-stop nature of the story constantly turns things on itself to go back to what the control room is like. Coupled that with the near constant ruse of having them doing absolutely nothing whenever they're on-screen does nothing to help this, and is merely around to stretch out screen time as the actual amount of time inside the cube is so low. The cold, mechanical nature of everything is also a disappointment, as it just feels to distant to really believe anything in the film. There's nothing in here that really gives off any sense of it being an emotional film, and we're taken away from it because of that. Those are the main strikes against this one, as it really didn't do a whole lot to impress me. br / br /The Final Verdict: There's a couple of good reasons to check this out, but there's very few. It's mostly just a copy of the first one with nothing really of interest to those who didn't really like it or haven't seen it. If it sounds interesting, take a shot at it, it just didn't do anything for me. br /

review by: date: 2007-08-12 rating:

cube zero
The third film completely ignores cube 2 and is really just a prequel to the first. br / It begins with one unlucky guy making his way through the cube, he ends up getting sprayed with some colourless liquid, he thinks its water, but water it ain't. What follows is the most gruesome death sequence I have ever seen. Nasty though it may be, it does a very good job of setting the tone for the rest of the film because this gives it a "no holds barred" feel. br / The first film sought to investigate character and human nature using the cube as a device to bring out in the characters that which would otherwise have remained hidden without the extreme circumstance. That objective having been established, the reason for those extreme circumstances is rendered irrelevant (hence there is no exit from the cube in the first, just a symbolic white light). br / So, where the cube of the first film was really just a hypothetical situation (a "what if" scenario if you will), cube zero makes it the subject rather than the setting, i.e it tells us everything. So for angry viewers of the first, cube zero will bring some welcome relief, for example, we see what happens after that white light! Added to that, it's more fun and the characters are more likeable.

review by: you can't make a bad film...oh, apart from Bird On A Wire... date: 2007-05-10 rating:

a lot to like if you liked the original
I liked this a lot more than Hypercube or Cube-Squared or whatever the sequel was called with all its silly computer graphics. This is gritty and darkly funny in a twisted way. It was nice to see outside the box and I liked the references to other sci-fi along the way (e.g. Ghost in the Shell) and it sits nicely with the original innovative Cube.

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