#20 - Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

(dir. Andrzej Sekula)

Just like in the first Cube, a group of prisoners wake up in a strange high tech structure with no memory of how they got there. Instead of escaping by figuring out advanced math problems, this time the focus is on quantum mechanics and time dilation and stuff like that. It sounds cooler than it is.

This is worse than the original in basically every way. While still mostly filmed on a single set, this time the colors don't change between rooms, so 99% of the movie takes place in the same ugly boring white room. Instead of gruesome traps, we get rooms where the gravity changes or time goes faster than usual. Neat idea, but much less visually interesting than a guy getting cut into little cubes by razor wire. The characters are uninteresting and in some cases super annoying. The effects are all CGI and look really really terrible.

I don't want to write anything else about this because it isn't good and you shouldn't watch it. It's dull as hell.