<< For God's sake, all I wanted to find out is why they were in the cube. I would have turned th emovie off after half an hour but I wanted to find that out. Then it never tells you! >>
That's the WHOLE point! It's a great movie and it offers some awesome anti-conspiracy theories on evil things the government does:
There is no conspiracy. It's a blundering headless beast and it originally had some purpose but it was lost in the shuffle or restructuring, budget cuts....
Man....and so efficiently made--"We've got one set piece--a tiny cubic room. All we do is change the lights, throw in some digital f/x and an awesome plot an we got ourselves a flick."