Diagonaldi Very well executed

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

mkivtt Do yourself a favor and watch this movie up to the point where the first guy gets sprayed with "water." Turn it off after that. At that point you'll have seen the only decent gore, and you will be spared the boredom and stupidity that is the rest of the "plot." This movie adds absolutely nothing. The gore is lame, the story is laughable, the acting is poor, and the plot holes are bigger than the cube itself.Just some examples.The helicopters can be heard at the lake as soon as they are scrambled. So the base is right next door? How could they possibly get away? The woman's daughter magically appears in the last scenes in the forest. Where did she come from? The "people upstairs" have to come down to the tech room to operate the controls and find the rogue tech guy? Really? With all their tech, there isn't another control room somewhere? Okay, so they have computer eye implants, chips in people's brains, and the means to build a cube... but they can't find one guy in the cube? Even though every room has a camera? Hello, how about a single mosaic channel showing all rooms? Or a motion sensor? Blah, blah, whatever. Not wasting time typing more. I figured with a 5.7 rating it can't be that bad, but it was just dreadful. How anyone can rate this higher than a 3 is beyond me.

sol- Employed to monitor the progress of those subjected to the Cube experiment, two technicians begin to question the ethical implications of their job in this prequel to Vincenzo Natali's 'Cube'. The film gets off to a solid start with lots of mysteriousness in the air with ominous personnel files and odd touches like pill-form lunches. The novelty of having two individuals in limited danger sit back and watch events unfold does, however, wear thin quite quickly even with a lot of intriguing answers given to explain the Cube's purpose and the reason why individuals are generally placed inside. Simply put, it is more exciting to watch those with no idea figure out what is going on piece by piece (as per the first two movies) than it is to have all the answers gradually unfold from the perspective of those in control. The film is also compromised by an inappropriately comedic performance from Michael Riley as the mysterious man in charge; he is charismatic but far too goofy to ever seem menacing or fearsome. There is also some baffling, unexplained technology that somehow allows the technicians to read dreams. 'Cube Zero' does, however, trump its predecessors by including a more imaginative variety of gory, graphic death scenes. The film is also topped off by a thought-provoking ending with a chilling reference to Natali's original horror thriller.

mattiasflgrtll6 Let me start with saying this: Hypercube wasn't that bad. It definitely didn't work as a sequel to Cube, but was decent as a STAND-ALONE FILM. Definitely kinda dumb, but a guilty pleasure. But I'm not here to talk about Hypercube. This is Cube Zero. And Cube Zero makes its first mistake in the opening scene: it tries to copy the tension sudden horror from the opening in Cube. Only that instead of getting sliced into cubes, he thinks acid is water at first. I do give it points for being fairly frightening and it's actually the only scene in the movie to give me the creeps. But it's still a lazy attempt to make fans of the first movie intrigued. But this is one of the smallest offenders. Before I go on to the next thing, this is not a spoiler for THIS movie. However, it's hard to talk about this movie without referring back to the ending of Hypercube, so what the hell, I put the spoiler tag here anyway. It's revealed that the secret behind the cube is, wait for it... TWO GUYS IN A DIRTY LITTLE ROOM PLAYING CHESS. Wow! What a astonishing yawn-dropping plot-twist! Except it's not. It's like Ernie Barbarash assume the audience is a hoop of hamsters who will be mesmerized by anything, no matter how stupid it is. Even though this is a really f ucking dumb twist, it could MAYBE have worked if these two individuals are two psychotic creeps with no remorse of human life. Still not very good, but at least would make for a more decent movie. But nope. These are two poor pathetic saps trapped in a room playing chess... and drawing a little. David Huband, who is playing Dodd... is AWFUL. He. Is. Freaking. Terrible. If you want an actor playing a kid occupying a playground and shouting at everyone, sure. But otherwise, he just doesn't fit for the role. That his lines are horrible doesn't help either. God, he was just PAINFUL. Zachary Bennett, who plays his friend, is a whole lot better. He could be worse than that and still a better actor than Huband. Bennett is the kind of actor where you think "Why the hell didn't he assign for a better movie?". But many actors make mistakes (or in some cases, their agents) when choosing movies to have a part in. The first forty-five minutes in essentially pretty much nothing. All the fun and excitement is gone. The heart-pounding tension is not there either. The one-dimensional, but entertaining characters, from the first movie, gone too. Eric Wynn is less of a cardboard cut out than Dodd, but I still don't care very much for any of them. There is a scene I had a chuckle at though. The one where Dodd has a poor bastard trapped in a dark room, and receives the question "Do you believe in God?". Confused, he answers no... and dies. This scene was meant to show how the two main characters are forever destined to watch and give people a living hell, but the execution of it made the scene dumb, not effective. After the snail slow first half, Wynn decides he's tired of sitting in a room doing nothing, so he enters a cube to help some individuals out. And there individuals... they all suck. None of them has any sort of character trait to give a crap about at all. So not much to say about these people, since I can't even remember how they were like. Or looked like. Oh one more thing, there's someone in the cast playing Cassandra Rains. Who was that again? Eh, who cares. As contrived and idiotic most of the movie is, it does at least have a good villain. Michael Riley, who is playing Jax, seems to have a lot of fun in his role and gives the movie some energy when he's featured in a scene. If not for him, my rating for this movie might be even lower. He also has the better lines of the movie.I haven't gotten to the ending yet. Oh my God... Oh my God, WHAT?! Wynn is re-incarnated as Kazan??? I mean, I've seen some dumb movie endings in my life, but this is F UCKED! I feel like someone just raped me and went "Sorry bud, you are gonna have to live with this."The cinematography is nice and two actors in the movie do their best, but aside from that, this is a disgrace to Cube and to well-made horror movies. If you want to rip on this movie, see it with some pals. But do for the love of God not see it yourself. You will wish you spent your time watching Cube for the second time instead, funny enough.All right, I've said all I can think of. But I will never stop being angry at the fact that this movie was even made.

Leofwine_draca CUBE ZERO, the third and final instalment of the CUBE trilogy, is a prequel to the first movie that attempts to explain more of the background behind the cube installation in an interesting and entertaining way.The writers achieve this by presenting another round of participants battling against the various traps and tribulations, which are the goriest yet; the opening death sequence is grisly in the extreme and like something out of WISHMASTER. Running concurrently with this plotting is a behind-the-scenes scenario which shows something of the men who control the cube and their reasons for doing so.CUBE ZERO is a resolutely low-budget B-movie that gets by on genre goodwill, enthusiastic performances from a game cast and some effective special effects. Michael Riley's robo-eyed baddie is by far the most fun, but the rest of the characters work too - and, as ever, watching their interactions is a whole lot of fun.The twist ending is particularly worthwhile as it ties into the first CUBE in a neat and surprising way. This series may not be one to set your world on fire, but as ever, CUBE is a whole lot of fun.