After a brief run in theaters about a year and a half ago, this well-rounded French film is now coming to Prime Video without too much hype, but believe us: if you’re looking for withering, dark and claustrophobic entertainment, ‘The tube‘ is for you. A film that with very few elements and making use of magnificent suspense and very reduced means, makes a proposal that leaves the best possible taste in the mouth.
Here we will have a starting point that will be familiar to us from movies like ‘Cube’: someone He is locked in an artificial structure, he does not know how he got there, but he does know that it is convenient for him to get out as soon as possible. It’s clear why: the tube through which she has to crawl to find the exit is full of traps, dangers, and even monsters that want to trap her. And as if that weren’t all, a bracelet she is wearing indicates an ominous countdown.
Obviously, the less we reveal the plot of the film, the better, but we can anticipate some slight elements of science fiction and fantasy that come together in a final stretch that is undoubtedly the worst of the whole. But until you get to those 15 minutes that perhaps don’t live up to the vibrant height of what preceded them, there’s a splendid (and bloody) adventure of traps, blades, flamethrowers, self-inflicted wounds, lethal pools, blood, sweat and tears that connects too. with another classic of audiovisual torture: the ‘Saw’ saga.
The set comes with a French label, written and directed by Mathieu Turi and starring a fierce Gaia Weiss. Everything ends up being like a kind of adaptation of a non-existent video game, since the development of the film follows the logic of a puzzle action game: the succession of levelsthe nod to the Game Over, the ideas to orient yourself in a maze… quite an ingenious, modest and resounding surprise.
