'Hypercube' is kind-of silly. I liked 'The Cube' better.

'Hypercube' starts off well-enough. Like in the first film, a bunch of strangers find themselves trapped in a cube-like room with 6 doors, almost no possessions and no idea...
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'Hypercube' is kind-of silly. I liked 'The Cube' better.

'Hypercube' starts off well-enough. Like in the first film, a bunch of strangers find themselves trapped in a cube-like room with 6 doors, almost no possessions and no idea what they're doing there. Note, the characters from the first movie were trapped in a prison that could actually be built, but now these characters are trapped in a theoritical, 4-dimensional cube. They're trapped in something impossible, is what I'm saying. (Where the first movie was somewhat realistic, the second movie crosses over into sci-fi.)

Anyway, the rooms teleport around, which is nifty; also, the reason the movie is called Hypercube. The booby-traps from the first movie have been replaced with a living cube monster that hunts the characters from room-to-room. Also neat.

The plot hits the skids about 40 minutes in, when it's decided that the 4-dimensional cube can replicate alternate realities, and as such alternate-reality duplicates start popping up. One guy goes nuts when he sees this and.. well, he acts like a generic man-who-goes-nuts would act. Also, if you have sex in the cube, you will turn into a quick-freeze mummy.

All-in-all, the movie looks pretty nice, it's got a whole bunch of weird camera angles, snazzy graphics, and high-octane action. But, the story doesn't any sense, and the ending makes you say "Oh, cliff-hanger, I guess they were hoping to make 'Hypercube^3'."

They took few elements from the first movie, lost most of the interesting ones, and glued some useless ones in. Watch this movie after you see the first one.