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[Diablo44]

I enjoyed this movie immensely.  Some of the blemishes showed, like the stagey acting at points (especially Quentin the Cop) and some mathematical points made too quickly for my taste, but for the money (1/4 of a million Canadian from what I read), it was very entertaining!  One critique that I've heard more then once was the "sudden" change in demeanor of one character, but I don't agree with it.  I felt that the change was more gradual and I could, as a first time viewer, see it coming to a degree.  

Also, for you KITH: Brain Candy fans (and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, according to the IMDb. . I'm not a fan, so I haven't seen), the college student Leaven is a familiar face.

[Neon Noodle]

I liked this movie too - probably because it had all no-name actors in it. It was VASTLY superior to the sequel, in ways I won't even go into here. Just watch the first movie, that is enough.

Yes, the Decartian coordinates were extremely difficult to grasp, and you could tell that the retarded kid would come into play; all of these type of films have at least one character that everyone thinks is worthless and they turn out to be priceless. Not surprising that they didn't spend a huge amount of money, since most of the film was done in the same room with different colors.

Not Oscar-worthy by any means, but a good way to kill 1.5 hours.

[jmc]

I liked some of it...the overall premise was good, but I thought the ending crapped out--it just seemed like the ending of any other thriller with the bad guy trying to kill the good guys.

The conflict between some of the characters wasn't that great either.  It seemed like they were reaching for some sort of "social comment" or something but they couldn't pull it off.  It would have been better if they'd just forgotten about that part of it.

[Diablo44]

I agree with you on the ending being a bit of a cop out with a "bad guy trying to kill the good guys" feel to it (my girlfriend, who agreed to watch this with me, God bless her, said, "but. . but. . why?"  I couldn't come up with an answer either. . . )  I thought the social comments kind of helped set up some of the character changes towards the end. . . I don't want to give anything away, but the arguments between 2 of the characters kind of built up and built up, leading to one's demise and the other one's spiral into complete bat-s**ttyness (a word? I doubt it. . . )

[JohnL]

My biggest problem with it was also the end. All the doors in the cube made a loud noise when opened, except for the one behind them which you could barely hear, allowing the bad guy to sneak up on them. I hate it when the film has to cheat to allow something to happen. I also didn't like that everyone except the autistic guy ended up dead.

[Eirik]

Overall, I am with Neon Noodle, this was a really different and fun movie.  Good point by a poster about the sequel which was over-reliant on special effects.  It also tried to belabor the point made by the first.

Basically, the movie came up with an original premise and had some interesting if cliched characters.  It kept the special effects very simple and played on the whole conspiracy-paranoia thing pretty well.  It really worked as a one time deal I thought.  

The sequel was an unnecessary let-down.