I really enjoyed the first Cube, for what it was. It was a neat, low-budget Canadian indie film, and it put forward a pretty interesting premise. People trapped in some sort of interstellar/psychological prison, they have no idea how they got there, and the rooms have the potential to kill you with their traps. Personally, I would have liked if they combined Hellraiser and Cube, that the Cube is actually the demon box that Pinhead desires. Get on that Freddy vs. Jason hacks.
I don’t know what the fuck happened with this. I thought the budget was supposed to go up on the sequels. Cube 2: Hypercube essentially is the same movie as the first one, except they took away all the intrigue, the gritty lighting and coloring, the general concept, and redid the same premise of the first movie, with a less interesting cast of characters, a lame ass unclever twist ending, and the special effects team from the guys who did the background on The Secret. Psychological introspection doesn’t translate to staring blankly and quoting introductory level quantum physics theories. Oh, I guess it’s supposed to be cool that gravity and time bend differently in each cube room. Except Fred Astaire learned how to do that in 1955, and he danced up the walls and across the ceiling of a hotel room.
And that my friends was Hypercool. Avoid this movie like the plague.
