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 Cube
2: Hypercube (2002)
Lionsgate / 2003
Directed by Andrzej Sekula
Written by Sean Hood
Cast: Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung,
Matthew Ferguson & Neil Crone
Review by Adam Tracey
Sticking with the premise of the original Cube, eight
strangers awake in cube shaped rooms and do not know why
they are there. As they move through the cube they learn
that it exists in a fourth dimension where the laws of
physics that we know do not apply. They must traverse the
cube to its end and try to discover why they are here and
how to get out…alive!
Hypercube is the middle of the Cube trilogy and by far is
the worse of the three outings. Hypercube actually premiered
on the Sci Fi channel, so things like gore and nudity were
not there. This cut has a tad bit of blood and one small
shot of nudity added for the DVD, but neither does anything
or has any real purpose. The first Cube had a cipher for
decoding which cubes were good and which would leave you
dead, this one had nothing of the sort. The players were
just randomly moving through the cubes hoping to find an
exit; this took away any direction that the movie might have
had. The first also a link between all the enclosed people,
this installment had only a really weak connection that they
never really went into for anything more than a superficial
look. They really went for the full boat on this one, opting
to pick up the most polar opposites of characters. You had
the over aggressive security guy, the angelic heroine, there
was a genius Alzheimer’s patient, a gamer, a cowardly geek
and a blind girl. All of which made for an absolute cluster
fuck of a movie. |
