Tubi Thursday: Cube (2021)

 A pretty famous Remake is coming next as a proper Review on the Schedule, so why not another for this Thursday?

Well, I've had my eye on one for a while now, so let's check out the Japanese Remake of...

In the Cold Open, a man tries to escape from a strange Cube-shaped room.

He makes it to another...but let's just say that he made a bad choice.

A group of people wake up in a similar room and try to figure out what the hell is going on.

Oddly like in The Maze Runner, the Film's lone Female shows up suddenly and the Plot gets moving.

They have to navigate between the Rooms, avoid the traps and find a way out.

Easier said than done.

Harder for many people these days in America- it involves doing Math without a calculator!

Can they escape?
Is there anything to escape to?

Will lazy Critics compare this to Squid Game, even though that is from South Korea and not Japan?

To find out the answers to the first 2 questions (the third one is 'Sadly, no'), stream it now.

For better or worse, it is a very Japanese Remake of the 1997 Cult Classic.

Weirdly, it started to give me Dimension High flashbacks- although this is far better!
The fact that I had to watch Japanese people solving puzzles- mostly just Math- in a weird 3-D environment is a very specific comparison though.

To be fair, that was in the original Film, so they didn't add it.

Speaking of the original Film, there's large parts that are, understandably, very similar.  
This one also answers as many questions as the Canadian Film did as well.

I do wish that there was more of the creative death trap stuff in there.  What we get- spinning blades, gas and the like- is good.  They just focused more on the Characters than that.

I don't pretend to know Movie Financing- let alone in Japan- but I feel like you could do more with the same amount of money and CGI in 2021 than you could in 1997.
I just wanted more- a truly American complaint.

If you go in expecting Saw, you'll be disappointed.
For better or worse, this is a Cube Film.

A weird Film with some good moments and an interesting mystery.  Like the other Film, it is just far less interested in answers than you might hope.