Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

DerekB Coming from someone who loves Cube, I feel confident in saying that Hypercube managed to take everything good about the original and toss it out the window.The first thing that really upset me about Hypercube is it's uninteresting characters. Its very clear that the movie tried to imitate some of the characters from the original, but I never felt attached to any of the characters at all, and it didn't matter to me if any of them lived or died, unlike in the original Cube where the viewer is able to see characters change and develop.The argument could be made that there was a real lack of story to the original Cube, but all the unanswered questions that it left were what made it so memorable. That would be reason enough not to make a sequel, but they went ahead to put in a very generic and uninteresting story.The only good thing I can really say about Hypercube is that it tried to something new and different. In that respect, I think it would have been a lot better as a standalone movie since it wouldn't need to follow any rules set by the original film.

sol- This sequel of sorts to Vincenzo Natali's 'Cube' once again focuses on a group of strangers who realise that they have been kidnapped and placed inside a labyrinthine cube structure with interlocking rooms. This time though, it is a hypercube (a cube with four dimensions) and rather than any of the rooms being booby trapped, several just collapse on themselves as the unstable structure reaches the point of implosion. Some elements of the film are highly predictable, such as each character only ever so gradually divulging that they are connected to a weapons manufacturer who has designed the cube. The performances also range from over-the-top theatrical to overly comical with a senile old lady in the mix and some of the special effects are simply mediocre. Despite all this, 'Hypercube' is relatively encapsulating to view with lots of intriguing science fiction concepts talked about and explored. Most fascinating are the chambers in which time is sped up and slowed down and all the constant shifts in gravity as the characters move from one room to the next renders the whole experience unsettling. The intimate camera-work is great too, often walking and spinning around the characters in tight close-up. This certainly is not a worthless motion picture, but it certainly is more than a step below the original so fans may want to exercise caution.

liambl 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.

By-TorX-1 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.