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Cube Zero (2004) -- A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms.
Cube Zero (2004) -- A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms.

Overview

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Director:
Ernie Barbarash
Writer (WGA):
Ernie Barbarash (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
16 December 2004 (Thailand) more
Tagline:
Isolation - Panic - Terror more
Plot:
A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms. | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
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(7 articles)
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User Comments:
Not Awful, but Unnecessary more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Zachary Bennett ... Eric Wynn
David Huband ... Dodd

Stephanie Moore ... Cassandra Rains

Martin Roach ... Robert P. Haskell
Terri Hawkes ... Jellico
Richard McMillan ... Bartok
Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang ... Meyerhold (as Mike Nahrgang)
Tony Munch ... Owen

Michael Riley ... Jax

Joshua Peace ... Finn (as Josh Peace)

Diego Klattenhoff ... Quigley
Alexia Filippeos ... Anna
Jasmin Geljo ... Ryjkin
Fernando Cursione ... Doctor
Araxi Arslanian ... Female Doctor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cube Ø (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence/gore and some language.
Runtime:
97 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the monitor room at the beginning of the movie, there is a blurred shot of a controller for an Atari 2600 as the CD of Ryjkin's demise is being collected. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The file cabinets in the observation room are marked with name ranges; one drawer is listed as "Rabinovich - Rabe", which is not in alphabetical order. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Ryjkin: I hate this place.
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Movie Connections:
References Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Message From Buddha more

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84 out of 104 people found the following comment useful:-
Not Awful, but Unnecessary, 2 November 2005
3/10
Author: morphion2 from Australia

Following the release of Cube 2: Hypercube (2003), and playing off the alleged success of the original Cube (1998), Director Ernie Barbarash takes the liberty of bringing us the third installment in the trilogy, the prequel Cube Zero.

Deep in the bowels of a giant and faceless institution, time and place unknown, two low-ranking operators, Wynn (Zachary Bennett) and Dodd (David Huband) sit and observe on monitors the behavior of people that have been placed in a giant network of cubic chambers, some of which are rigged with death traps. Told that the people they are observing are convicted felons who chose this horrific and deadly ordeal over a lethal injection, these observers have had no problem with their jobs until Wynn, a mathematical genius, discovers that one of the prisoners, a woman named Cassandra (Stephanie Moore) never agreed to be put inside the Cube. Suddenly it's realized that perhaps their "jobs" are not what they seem, and that they may be part of something deeply sick and twisted...

For people that have seen and enjoyed the original Cube, this prequel will probably not be to your liking. It's not that the story does not have potential; it's simply that the first Cube film never needed to be expanded on. Standing alone, it is a neat little psychological thriller with very interesting concepts and a certainty about its own message. It was also nicely self-contained. The problem with Cube Zero is that it destroys some of the mystique of the original, attempting to answer questions with more questions but only really resulting in making a mess of what never needed fixing.

What this new film has to offer, which is questions about the psychological nature of authoritarianism and the banality of evil, certainly are good questions to be raised, but probably should have been done so on their own merits, rather than as a continuation of a film that had no such aspirations.

Having said this, the other traits of the film, such as acting and direction and writing, are not awful. There is a bleak, dark look to the film akin to such film noir as 'The Matrix' and 'Dark City', and they have certainly managed to recapture the claustrophobic feeling of the first Cube. Unfortunately for Barbarash, these are not enough positive qualities to save it.

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