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A few basic comments though - I don't think this movie is self-explanatory, at the level of mathematical theory. Which means, if you don't sometimes find yourself lying awake at night teasing your brain with multi-dimensional geometries, you probably simply won't enjoy it.

This is not about being smart or dumb - it's about your interests and pre-existing inclinations. I can think of subjects for films that would leave me wondering what the point is - ones where I don't have enough background or interest in the topic.

As a "sequel" this is dangerous. Whereas CUBE 1 was a nice mechanical device presented in a thriller, CUBE^2 is a deviously complex theoretical construct presented as science fiction.

I saw a copy of the used dvd for sale at my local video rent-all, and decided to rent the tape first in case, as most sequels do, this one was awful. Watched it twice that night. Bought the dvd. Have watched it about six times in a week... very unusual for me...

The film is chock full of presaging and detail. It is flawed, of course. I can think of twelve hours of scenes I would have like to have seen in it, and I bet the creators had to delete ten times that many ideas. It heavily rewards repeated viewing, but, even more so, stimulates curiosity, creativity and confusion for many more hours than it takes to watch it.

So my recommendation? If you read Flatland more than twice, if you occasionally dig out Einsteins little book just for beach reading, you'll probably enjoy the mental gymnastics of this film. If not, you'll probably think it is stupid.

Nice to get a sequel, but the acting disappoints
Still wondering who built the Cube from the first movie? You get somewhat of an answer in this sequel. The downside is that you have to suffer through 90 minutes of some excruciating stock characters. And there are at least two actors in the film who, either due to the stiff dialogue they have to recite or due to the limitations of their one-dimensional characters, are painful to watch.

But the lead in the film, Canadian actress Kari Matchett, is both very good and very cute, so that took some of the sting away. She's got great dimples, that Kari!

Other than that, many elements of the first film are repeated here: rooms with unpredictable traps or characteristics, the rapid breakdown of civility, and murder.

Some brief behind-the-scenes featurettes are included, some more mind-numbingly technical than others.

All in all, not a TOTALLY satisfying film, but a more than decent attempt to take the original story to a different level and conclusion. Probably not worth purchasing, but absolutely worth renting if you liked the first film.

Dude...where's my cube?
Take one part horrendous acting, two cups of the worst dialogue you can script, a pinch of convoluted plot, sprinkle in some of the worst ending in the history of film and bake it all for 90 minutes at three hundred [and shamelessly ride the coattails of the original degrees] and have "Cube 2: Hypercube".

While "Battlefield Earth" will always hold a hallowed place in my heart as "Worst Film Ever", "Cube 2" comes dangerously close to dethroning it. The saddest aspect seems to be that this storyline had some potential. Certain aspects of the origin of the original cube are revealed. The mysterious "Izon" corporation seems to have ties to everyone. The idea of parallel existences is discussed, and the possibility that certain characters are not what they appear to be comes to light. Then it all goes to h#ll in a bug, rusty bucket. The old lady's character needed desperately to be put out of her misery, as she was far & away the least convincing of the lot. Our charismatic heroine was entirely one dimensional. The predictable psycho-dot private detective character never even seemed to TRY to convince us that he was anything but that: a psychodot who we just knew would go nuts and wreak havoc on the others. And what was the whole deal with that poor sweater-vest guy? This poor b#stard was doomed to be killed repeatedly (in "different realities", mmmkay...), ala Kenny from South Park, in increasingly more gruesome fashion. The others in the film should have been so lucky - it would have been more painless than listening to that old lady babble on endlessly.

Do yourself a favor: go rent "Ishtar" if you're a cinematic masochist. "Cube 2" just isn't suitable for public consumption.