Better Late Then Never

Absolutely Fantastic

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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.

This movie for me was boring and difficult to understand

The cube no longer has an interesting design but is as generic and uninteresting as ever. I say 'cube' not 'cubes', because all of the movie clearly happens on the exact same small and boring set.The camera is spinning around the cube all zoomed in for long, puke-inducing amounts of time. I really felt sick and my eyes started to hurt somewhere in the middle of watching this. Whoever filmed this overdid that spinning to create fake tension. It felt truly obnoxious.The characters are somewhat like-able this time though. At least for most of the movie, they're not as flat and 'just there to hysterically yell and die' like in the other two movies, eventhough the cliche 'violent male' and 'generic smart I'm-gonna-survive-this female' characters from the other movies are still in this one, except the obligatory 'violent male' character is white for once.There are no deaths in this movie as much as in the first one, and the ones that are present are accompanied by terrible CGI and aura of fake-ness, but the movie still manages to be interesting most of the time, due to the decent characters at because it delivers *some* answers to plot holes missing from the first Cube.If you enjoyed the first Cube movie, watch this one with low expectation, and by all means DO NOT WATCH THE THIRD ONE because it will ruin the whole series for you - it's THAT awful.This one though - worth the watch. It's a solid 'okay' B-movie.

Eight strangers awaken with no memory and find themselves in a puzzling cube shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.This sequel is directed by Andrzej Sekuła, more often known as a cinematographer; films shot by him include "American Psycho", "Hackers", "Vacancy", and "Armored". That list of credits might make you suspect this is going to be a great film, but you probably would be wrong.Some of what happens in this film is interesting. The general premise is not all that changed from the original. However, it gets a bit more abstract and I am not sure if the science really adds up. Making matters worse, the computer effects are pretty sloppy. They just look bad, plain and simple.