Great Film overall

Absolutely Fantastic

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Okay sequel to the very smart independent sci-fi/horror cult classic original film. As with the first film, a group of strangers find themselves waking up in a series of interconnected cubes, in which each cubed room contains some form of deadly trap to be survived. This sequel focuses more on the blood, gore, and traps and less on any sort of Kafkaesque existential nightmare that was the first film. Directed by Andrzej Sekula (cinematographer on "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs"), the film does have a slick look, but the special effects are disappointingly poor. Overall, "Cube²: Hypercube" has a story that held my interest, but was lacking in any sort of subtext, which left me with merely surface level entertainment.

Having been released five years after the first one, this film seems to take things to a whole new level. As much as I loved said film for its grittiness and claustrophobia, this one is a little bit more disturbing.Kate, A psychotherapist, finds herself in the titular place as she soon meets Simon, a blatantly aggressive detective. She later comes across Sasha, a young blind woman, sitting in the corner of another room. Moments later, they meet Jerry, a technical engineer, along with Max, a computer hacker, as well as Julia, an attorney, and Mrs. Paley, a seemingly dementic former mathematician.All seven of them unite as they search for a way out. But the chips go down as many of them come clean and reveal to have been working for a company named Izon: Jerry reveals that he designed the entry doors, Simon reveals that he had been in search of an Izon employee named Becky Young, Julia reveals her duty to representing the company, and Sasha has known more than she had been leading on; she reveals that she is in fact Alex Trusk, a computer hacker behind said cube.What I specifically liked about this movie is the psychological tension it has, not that the first one didn't already have that. What I mean is the way this film uses that. Whereas the first one had death-traps, this one uses portals of some kind to wipe out its victims. What makes it even more disturbing is what they actually do to them; do they leave them trapped in other dimensions? Do they erase them from existence? The less I know the better, I guess.Is this film without its flaws? Definitely not. The Special effects aren't that good and the acting is far below average. But other than that, it's not that bad.

I watched the first movie - Cube yesterday I really enjoyed it. I did not write a review for that one but I did rate it eight stars! The follow up - Hypercube is really bad. It is awfully boring and so uninspired! The story is similar to the first part and even the number of people and even their roles: one bad guy / a killer, one blond woman who knows it all, one handicapped person in some way ... but the first one actually was quite good and the story and all was interesting. Here, nothing is good. While watching it, I was thinking to myself several times when it will end! The acting was mediocre. The effects were kinda too plastic / amateur looking. The ending of the film was puzzling ( though I guess it gives a way to the third part) and somewhat unnecessary.I am really not sure if there is one really good point about this movie. Maybe I am still influenced by the first one, so I am giving this one 4. It may deserve less.

The original Cube was an innovative exercise in how to tell an engaging and original story with a limited budget and an even more limited set. Cube 2: Hypercube, alas, fails to capitalise on such established promise and becomes boxed in by banality. Without any puzzles for the protagonists to solve, Cube 2 is pretty much a number of random individuals climbing in and out of the same room for one and a half hours until it all just ends. The actual end 'twist' doesn't really make much sense and the use of early CGI is ill-advised as it takes away the claustrophobic and visceral element of the first movie and replaces it with 'Crystal Castles'-like shapes that look super-imposed on victims rather than actually physically impaling them. As such, in place of enigmas we get repetitive routines, although the zero-gravity love scene is something novel, I suppose. The murder of numerous parallel copies of characters is an amusing motif, too, but the film needed more of such touches to really make its mark. Not terrible, then, but not innovative like its predecessor, and it is a shame that such promise imploded.