Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

DerekB 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.

pepethedoc I loved Cube. Cube was a short and sweet film that said what it needed too, and left me thinking about it for weeks. Cube 2: Hyper Cube, is the opposite. If you liked Cube because of the Kafkaesque story, the characters, the math, the strategy, or all the material it left you to think about, you will be disappointed.There are too many characters. The original fleshed them all out, this one didn't. When characters die you feel nothing. There are maybe two characters that are actually well done and interesting. There is this huge reveal at the end, completely re-contextualizing the identity of one of the characters, but there was practically no build up and it leaves you completely uncaring. Also the acting is overall poor and underdone.Visually, it looked awful. The first Cube had really good gore, and some of the cgi stuff didn't age well, but Cube came out 5 years before Cube 2, and looks so much better. In Cube they have lights in each of the rooms to make them feel different, in Cube every room is white and it get's extremely dull.In the first cube the numbers and traps and boots and all this other stuff gave the characters some actual strategy to use. In this movie it's just "oh no its a poorly animated thing run away!!" and the characters just go through random doors to escape.I know I keep comparing this film to the first, that is because I need to emphasize: THIS MOVIE IS NOT LIKE THE FIRST ONE, AND ISNT GOOD ON ITS OWN. Really disappointing.

njnya I had just watched the first cube, and thought it was amazing. I couldn't wait, I had to see the squeal right away. I had a feeling it wouldn't be as good, but I at least hoped for something decent. Anyway...THE PREMISE: The idea here was decent, the idea of being stuck in a 4-D cube where its inter-workings are unknown. Unfortunately, over half of the plot points are just recycled from the first movie. You have the characters not ing how they got there, ing the last thing they did, numbers that have some unknown significance, an impaired character that knows something important, and even another physco killer. Not to mention the ending, which is interesting, but too vague to give any real closure. THE ACTING/CHARACTERS: This is one of the movies weakest points. The acting is either to casual, or too cartoony. None of it is convincing. Because of this, the characters don't feel real at all. Furthermore, you don't care when bad stuff is happening to them, it's about as non-moving as a story can be. This is especially a pity, considering how strong the first movies characters were. THE FX: It has some interesting FX, some are a bit creative. But they are too cheap and random-looking, that they don't feel the least bit threatening. Jerry's death scene is especially laughable. I respect it for trying to be different and creative, but it ultimately falls flat on its face.

By-TorX-1 The original Cube was an innovative exercise in how to tell an engaging and original story with a limited budget and an even more limited set. Cube 2: Hypercube, alas, fails to capitalise on such established promise and becomes boxed in by banality. Without any puzzles for the protagonists to solve, Cube 2 is pretty much a number of random individuals climbing in and out of the same room for one and a half hours until it all just ends. The actual end 'twist' doesn't really make much sense and the use of early CGI is ill-advised as it takes away the claustrophobic and visceral element of the first movie and replaces it with 'Crystal Castles'-like shapes that look super-imposed on victims rather than actually physically impaling them. As such, in place of enigmas we get repetitive routines, although the zero-gravity love scene is something novel, I suppose. The murder of numerous parallel copies of characters is an amusing motif, too, but the film needed more of such touches to really make its mark. Not terrible, then, but not innovative like its predecessor, and it is a shame that such promise imploded.