Cube 2: Hypercube (2003)
- written April 2003
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A few more people have been chosen to be imprisoned within “the cube.” A prison of sorts which can be a test or pure hell, 9 people wake up inside the cube and try to sort out each others secrets and the way out. But this cube has something the prior one didn’t have, the dimension of time.
Overall: This film failed to duplicate the good things from part 1 and then compounded the mistakes of the first film also. Essentially all of these victims have connections to the cube or the company that made it, etc. However the folks are so secretive and quiet no one gets to each other’s secrets so that they could use this to their advantage and get out. And to top it off, the dimension of time is added so each room has different time which can cause people to show up multiple times. So it adds a little bit of interest but it does finally answer what didn’t get answered the first time – is the govt. behind this or does the cube just exist and they were innocent pawns getting caught in this. And why are they there? Part 1 was vague but for good reason and I think that it worked much better than this film. By the end u know too much and it turns out to be nothing more than a video game – basically like “Virtuosity.” So I liked the idea of time but then once the private eye starts turning into a serial killer, you wonder what his motivation is. Why is he killing and no one else is? Why did the couple end up dying in each other’s arms? Why did that mini cube with the power to kill show up once but no other particular booby traps occur? That plus with the whole breaking down of the cube, the smaller is was the more they backtracked, you really saw the limits with the plot and the emptiness/hopelessness of the situation. Part 1 was so great ‘cause it looked limitless, like they’d never get out. Part 2 basically guaranteed you’d find a way out. Part 1 was scary ‘cause there were booby traps and then brought in the whole mathematician theory. Part 2 eliminated the potential deaths, eliminated the skill to discover a way out – it was almost too simple. They took the bests of part 1 and circumcised what worked. I watched the deleted scenes and outside of being the most unprofessional deleted scenes I’ve ever watched, the fact is the endings not used were better than what was left in. Ugh! Comparison: Cube meets X-files |
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