Escape Artist, The (2002) - NewStandard: 7/24/99

the intrepid, bickering crew eventually stumble upon kazan (andrew miller), a frightened think a mobster’s own life story might make a great movie, but "bonanno

View this Website
Read about the movie Escape Artist, The (2002)

NewStandard: 7/24/99 Slow and stagy ’Cube’ traps characters in hellish dilemma How’s this for a puzzle? Pluck seven random individuals from their everyday lives and place them in a forbidding metal cage connected to a series of other cages that are part of an intricate and deadly maze. Such is the plot of "Cube" (9 p.m. Saturday, Sci Fi), a slow and stagy, but eventually compelling 1998 Canadian drama. Like "The Twilight Zone" or any number of existential plays, this film puts seven intense individuals in a hellish dilemma. How and why did they get here? Is there any way out? If so, what’s on the outside? Which adjoining cells are set with deadly traps? Who built this sick contraption? The cast includes Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint), a no-nonsense cop who becomes more authoritarian as time goes by; Leaven (Nicole de Boer) a high-school math prodigy; Worth (David Hewlett), a nihilistic architect with a dark s...