Undescribable Perfection

good back-story, and good acting

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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.

This film is an appalling load of hogwash. and not the kind that makes you laugh, chortling at how bad the film actually is, it's the kind that just leaves a pit in your stomach and makes you re-evaluate those hours you'll never get back watching the cube 2: hyper cube. There are a few main pointers I'd like to point out that really make this film stink.Budget is floppy, and it shows. the CGI is lousy. - I understand that the actors received praise for tension and attention to lines, but it really doesn't show - acting is meh at best. - The biggest no-no for me was the EXACT SAME PLOT as the previous film - there's little to no difference and it follows a boring horror plot line that is almost always repeated in horror films - someone dies as the introduction, group of people, one goes mad and kills the others, one escapes and dies, fin. I'm not making this up, this can be seen in some of the paranormal activity titles, grave encounters one and two, Chernobyl Diaries and more that I can't be bothered to name. - It's a sad sad failure. I know this just seems blind, but hold with me - there are bad films that are good.. and then there are films that are trying so hard but miss the mark and just leave you feeling disappointed (Hint hint, which one does this film fall into?)Overall this film is a waste of your time and energy unless you have never seen a low-budget gore/horror film before. The editing is lousy as are the effects, the CGI is laughable and it just doesn't hit the high bar of modern film-making.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot was a little weak, because there were some body language clues from Kate in the very beginning that suggested she was not like the others.. also the plot revolved about the history and real life of everyone but Kate. Throughout the movie we knew something was off about Kate.I was a little disappointed in this plot since none of the characters really came up with a sound plan to "figure out" the cube. It was too much flying by the seat of their pants...Did not have the same methodological calculating attempts by the characters as portrayed in the first movie The Cube..However, was still a little entertaining to see what surprise each room held.

The main problem with this movie is, that there is really no sensible way to make a sequel to Cube. But they probably got more money to do a sequel and who would say no to that? So what could they do? Of course! Build a larger Cube! Genius! And time shenanigans for some reason. Genius? And, of course, the government is behind it all. Super Genius! But the movie itself isn't that terrible I find, it has some enjoyable scenes and the cube is still terrifying enough to keep you interested. Like I already said, the movie is far from horrible or unwatchable, but there is just no point to a Cube sequel to exist in the first place. I have yet to watch the prequel, but that seems to be even more pointless than this film.