Cube 2 Reviews

Unoriginal and dull

The original Cube had an interesting idea and dissected it in an interesting way. The fact that it had no real plot was almost the point; the characters were the important factor.

I was excited when I started watching Cube 2: How could they follow it Cube? How would they change the formula? The sad answer is they didn't.

It's exactly the same as Cube with less believable characters and more silly sci-fi. In Cube no-one really worried about the plausibility of a massive cube being hidden somewhere as it didn't matter. Cube 2 spends longer worrying about the practicalities and confusing us with techno mumbo jumbo about hyper-dimensional cubes. Which just seems silly.

I won't spoil the ending just in case you do choose to watch it, but in my view it's one of the most annoying and self indulgent endings of any film.

Avoid this film. Watch anything else. Anything.

What is real?

This sequel to 1997 cult sci-fi film 'Cube' throws clunky special effects together with another unknown cast to try and capture the magic of the first.

It does not succeed.

While the first film was part of a movement in cinema using ever-slicker SFX to question our acceptance of reality (Dark City, The Matrix, Existenz), Hypercube manages to mangle all the thought provoking concepts previously introduced. However, for me, the worst sin it commits is daring to answer the question of it's own origin! Some things are better left unsaid. There are some good points to the film such as the watch collecting scenes and a couple of identity revelations, but overall me no likey very muchy.

Interesting and Thought Provoking

From the original dark "Ian M. Banks" scene settings, the Cube 2: Hypercube, took on a modern clean brighter look at the orginal idea. Tuck away in a warehouse somewhere in America, was the hypercube a multi-dimensional organism with a mind of its own, built by man, as a means of testing theorical physics.

Trapped in the hypercube are seemingly 6 random people. Who have no idea how they got there and why they were put there. Now starts a race against time, as the hypercube brings to shift, causing a multitude of effects that have negitive influence on the people inside, their only hope is to find a way out.

I personally enjoy this movie, its an interesting look at theorical physics and different look at an orginal idea. While the ending was alittle predictable and the characters were a little under developed. As a whole I didn't feel as though I had wasted my time.

If you like the orginal Cube movie, because of its dark scences, then this sequel isn't for you. If you like the orginal Cube movie, because of its interesting idea and its plot, then the sequel is a must seen, if only to make up your own mind.

White room, red dress

A disappointing sequel to, or is that re-run of, The Cube. Will they call the third outing Cube cubed? The essential flaw was that logic didn't seem to apply this time. Unlike Cube, where the hapless cubists gradually worked out strategies towards an escape and sometimes messily failing, in this version a similarly flawed spectrum of humanity more or less acted like rats in a sophisticated trap, running from room to room just to get away.

The ending too, was less a denoument than a disappointment, replacing mystery with a big 'Whaaaaat?'

But watch this film for the most seriously gorgeous sexy, slinky, and sensuous red dress ever captured on celluloid. Why are there no screen shots of it here. I demand to see the dress again!

[Highly rated reviewer]

An inferior retread

This film lacks much of the spark and tense claustrophobia of the original. Part of this is down to the redesigned 'HyperCube', that feels far too light and airy to be threatening. Even when the demented booby traps do emerge, gone is the high velocity piano wire we all know and love, now we get bad CGI forcefields and pointless time travel. Even a potentially interesting idea about the direction of gravity switching is utterly wasted.

Add to the mix, stock characters, clichéd dialogue and a deeply misjudged plot twist at the end that indicates the makers had run out of ideas and the whole thing becomes a mess. For Cube fanatics only.

What a let down!

I enjoyed the first movie and was hoping that the sequel would be more of the same - good characters, suspense, good death scenes - however it failed to impress on any level.

The characters were mediocre at best - you really didn't care if they lived or died. There was no real suspense and the death scenes were pathetic!

In the original cube the characters had to find a way to not only get out but to avoid the booby traps. In the sequel it was more a case of 'lets go this way and hope for the best'.

As for the ending - really disappointing.

If you enjoyed Cube don't bother watching this its a real let down!

A solid sequel

The original cube was cutting edge and it was always going to be difficult for a sequel to live up to it but with a strong cast and a completly new cube concept, the sequel damn near suceeds.

The storyline is similar everyone wakes and quickly meets up, using their combined knowledge work out some basic info about the cube an then the cards are thrown in the air and no one knows whats going on.

One down point is the quick mental breakdown of one of the characters. Given a longer running time this could have been developed alot more convincingly but there are bigger things going on here which make you itch for more info.

To date another sequel has been made but following a different plot. It would be very interesting to see where this moviesplot is headed.

how to ruin a cult classic

Is you liked the first cube movie as I did , prepare to be dissapointed. All of the closed in and tense feeling of the first film is gone. Dark colours replaced with bright whites that would put a Daz advert to shame and cunning traps replaced with a design and plot even a maths whizz would have trouble with. tries to explain the cube and the reason for it's sequel, but fails on all accounts.

Cubed or boxed?

This was a poor excuse for a follow up. It was a bigger budget,and it failed to have the intrigue of the first one. Although the first one had very little in the way of effects, it was possible. The second was completely implausible to the point of almost being laughable. I had to watch it all to see if you see who created it, which was the only thing keeping me on this film. **

having watched cube i was hoping this movie would have delved deeper into the reasons behind the cube but you only get the briefest of glimses at the end of the film. would have given this a 5 but it was more of the same but on a different platform, begs the the question will there be a cube cubed (cube3)