Cube²: Hypercube (2002)

Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

Director:

Andrzej Sekula

Writers:

Sean Hood (story), Sean Hood (screenplay)

Stars:

Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Kari Matchett	...	Kate Filmore
Geraint Wyn Davies	...	Simon Grady
Grace Lynn Kung	...	Sasha
Matthew Ferguson	...	Max Reisler
Neil Crone	...	Jerry Whitehall
Barbara Gordon	...	Mrs. Paley
Lindsey Connell	...	Julia
Greer Kent	...	Becky Young
Bruce Gray	...	Colonel Thomas H. Maguire
Philip Akin	...	The General
Paul Robbins	...	Tracton
Andrew Scorer	...	Dr. Phil Rosenzweig

Storyline

Eight strangers find themselves waking up in a strange cube-shaped room with no recollection of how they came to be there. Soon discovering that they're in a strange fourth dimension where our laws of physics don't apply, they have to unravel the secrets of the "hypercube" in order to survive...

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Plot Keywords:

writing on skin | falling up | calculus equation | number 60659 | introducing self | 

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Taglines:

The first one had rules

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, some violence and brief nudity

Did You Know?

Trivia

Used a similar staging method as the first film. The Cube was a single set consisting of identical panels for the walls and the floor (in some shots it was a green screen). For the previous movie, the crew clamped large lighting gels to the outer frame of the set so they could change the color scheme, but the all-white high-tech color scheme of this film simplified the lighting, and all they had to do to change the set in regards to what room they wanted to depict was to write on the walls with a grease pen and position certain props necessary to the plot. Some shots required the use of a green screen, especially when any door was opening. Some scenes used a full box to depict the room, but it was always the same set, just modified with extra panels.

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Goofs

Julia takes off her shoes and carries them with her for the rest of the film, but sometimes she has them in her hand as she climbs from room to room and sometimes she does not.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Colonel Thomas H. Maguire: [Maguire opens the portal to a new room, but ignores the room to look at the sides of the portal] Numbers. Where's the goddamn numbers?
[the portal closes before he can decide what to do]
Colonel Thomas H. Maguire: Oh God, oh God. There has to be something.
[He opens the briefcase, but it does not hold whatever he was looking for]
Colonel Thomas H. Maguire: Oh, shit. Goddamn it! Goddamn it! I mean, they're my numbers! Damn. Don't I at least get a shot at my numbers, you stupid fucks? I want a chance! God. I want a chance. God. I want a ...

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Connections

References Se7en (1995)

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Soundtracks

I No You
Written and performed by Kas Dunn
Published by Eat Entertainment

User Reviews

Cube 2: Hypercube: 6/10

I've never really thought about it this way, but I suppose in most cases, it's an honor to have a sequel. Although no one liked the sequel, I'm sure Jonathon Lynn is proud that The Whole Nine Yards got a sequel somehow. And that seems like the case with Cube 2: Hypercube, a sequel to the cult hit Cube. But then one wonders how there can be a sequel to a movie that was basically all filmed in one 14x14x14 set? Well, Cube 2 is the answer-but not really the best one. It shows what Cube would have been if it had had a bigger budget, but it also showed what it didn't want to become.

Strangers are thrown together into a series of interconnecting cubes yet again, but this time they're more high-tech. They're not different colors, and there's no booby traps. Instead, some rooms have a cube that attacks you (don't ask), some have gravity reversed, and time means nothing. There seems to be no pattern, like in the first one, so how are these people supposed to get out?

This is all one big rehash of the first. There's the wandering around, talking about the past, and speculation of why they're in the cube. I guess that's for people who see sequels before the originals. The characters are all more broadly drawn, the dialogue is cheesier, and it looks faker. In the first, you barely knew anything about the giant cube they were in. Here, it seems like everyone was involved somehow. The ending, which was vague in the first, explained some more, which I was angry yet happy about. It's hard to explain. But then they left it in the air yet again. Maybe it's for the prequel, Cube Zero (due out sometime this year) to describe.

But one positive difference between the two is that this one seemed to be overall scarier. It's not claustrophobia, but the idea of anything happening in a hypercube. Because they don't exist, everything goes wild here, allowing for some things to happen. It's all quite creepy. And although the random crazy psycho killer is more random here than the first, I liked him more, and he was great as he was going through the hypercube. Cube was an original, interesting, and disorienting movie. Cube 2 is the exact same thing, except not as good.

My rating: 6/10

Rated R for language, some violence and brief nudity.

Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 April 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Hypercube

Filming Locations:

Canada

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$3,563,603

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ghost Logic, Lions Gate Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1