@@insertname1841 probably appears in canadian cinema alot too, I'm just using "Hollywood" in the generic "american/canadian film making" sense. Hollywood (in the California sense) established the blonde lead trope and it's sort of become the standard
Characters grappling with unknown concepts proved immensely frustrating in comparison to the original Cube where the protagonists had every tool in front of them to solve the puzzle and didn't wander through a white room for 1 and a half hours.
I think it would have been cooler if they took the time travel portion a little bit further and ignored the parallel universe thing a bit. So in the beginning when the girl is pulled upwards by Simon that's cool. It's explains what happened in the beginning. When we see Kate through the moving wall in the background at the beginning and then we see Kate looking at herself through the moving wall on the opposite side later in the film...that's cool. I'd have loved for time to mean nothing, but have things be one dimension, so at least things get explained...not just written off as "this was in another dimension." It'd make them seeing themselves die more impactful and more consequential. Could the death be avoided? Could their own actions trying to avoid that death lead them to that death, etc. Just a thought.
1:58 she didn't get pulled. She actually fell due to the gravity being shifted in that room. Also the opening scene in this movie wasn't bloody is because not all rooms are designed to kill you.
no. She got "pulled" because it was supposed to be simon pulling her when he finds her later on in the movie, nothing to do with gravity, Also I didn't complain about the lack of blood, At all I mention it as a difference to first film certainly, I was more saying that the film has shit atmosphere because of the terrible cinematography, which Director/cinematographer andre sekula should know better, All of this I explain quite clearly in the video.
And so Wiki says the gravity was flipped. Well what do you know, Wiki... Though it was about to happen to Max when he saw Julia lying in the other room out there, he tried to go through the 'door' and hung on tight because he was about to float up or something.
Salem Baron Hi and I hope you have a nice day. Second of all, I watched that scene where Holloway and Worth tell their names to each other (Helen and David respectively), will that do? I'd love to point that scene in the movie but in UA-cam most of popular movies get either copyrighted or hilariously small sized or too fast (and that is also mentioned in the script, go Google "imsdb cube" if you don't believe me. And that upwards pull of Becky didn't really look like anything to me (neither strong grab nor reversed gravity) but synopsis let me know of some other details of the movie and so, and I thought it might be gravity until it was revealed that Simon actually pulled her up and the scene at the beginning was just a different dimension! Yeah, how foolish I was! Lol! But that first paragraph of Cube 2 synopsis was not edited into something else on its Wiki page so I doubt the "every dumbass can write something into Wikipedia and it stays until its [sic] changed" situation. If a false fact is added to a Wiki page, it gets edited out rather quickly and not left hanging for months and months on there. Retarded my ass.
i dont agree that this film is shite. its easy for arse kissers to agree with these "kitchen pundits" (why though i dont get?) if you remember in the first film leven says that if they had stayed in the first room they would have escaped @Repollo ,, Also "language timothy!"- note= i feel the alternative ending is essential.
I’m a Gaint Wonka Bar lol I scene this a child as well I remember it this and final destination and urban legends lol my dad watched all these crazy movies he loved horror and These movies made me love horror so yes these are indeed mines hers and many others child hood trauma movies 😩 lmfao doesn’t mean we had a messed up childhood we had parents with character
same! my mom rented this back then and that sex scene is super awkward and scary for me. Rewatched this a while ago since I haven't watch the rest of the trilogy and it seriously is dumb now. Your raging hormones should already be overridden by your need to survive!
Cube Zero felt like a cheap sequel, even though the story was decent. I actually loved Cube 2, I think the concept of dimensions and time is extremely interesting.
Nice ideas, poor execution. Correct? I really did like the idea of the cubes having different gravity and paths, that could have been really interesting during the final chase!
Watching your rants it made me think. What If all your complaints were on directors part intentional. Why remove the numbers, why make this cube impossible to escape, Why leave them with knifes and belts and nothing useful and why have a bunch of random shmucks that don't have a niche. Maybe this cube was a way to test there patients. If they had stayed in one room eventually all rooms would have merged and they could have escaped. But left them traps and options to opt out of life early. This movie wasn't the best honestly though.
I've been trying to find this movie for _years_ because I remember seeing the scene of the hot girl dying while having sex, and thinking to myself (as a young child) that it was the stupidest scene I had ever seen, and it continues to be to this day.
Artaku Blue Death while having sex is a common cliché in horror movies, except that they don't do it so stupidly, i wonder where the guys who made this got a diploma
i'd love to see a sequel where they have a really dumb guy try to solve the more puzzle like original cube. Just have him making dumb mistakes and getting lost while a couple other idiots tag along.
@@arthas640 or they could make it so a seemingly dumb person seemingly has incrediply luck solving and surviving things they shouldt infuriating the cube operaters till they go in to kill them themselves thinking he must be a hacker or insider only to find out the "dumb" guy was actually using his alt universe selves to test each room to find the solution THEN went threw then when the miltary guys think they have the dude corner hundreds of alt versions of him flood the cube with the final scene being the same pool from two but its hundreds of the same guy start charging out of it with guns stolen from the miltary guys it play of there multidiementsial concept and would give people some shadenfredau that the people running this cruel expirement get some violent justice
Cut the guy some slack. The studio really fucked with his alien prequel idea so he was constantly trying to do damage control. Then take that slack back because of his BS over his stupid Last Duel failing
I have an early draft of the Cube 2 script, and it's MUCH different. I haven't read the entire thing yet, but it's way different from the film. The only similarity is that it has some of the same traps. If you want a copy of this and the first film's script, I'll email them to you, if you want to give me an email address. Just keep them private if I do send them.
Good review imo. I loved the 4D concept...but as the reviewer says the writing is appalling, almost nonsensical. Confusing the viewer just for the sake of video art is not clever...it just makes you ask why you wasted good money on it. The ending of C2 is especially badly done. The sole survivor is unceremoniously shot without a word, by the Cube’s creators/managers....why? There’s not even a clue. It leaves one feeling at best cheated. What a shame! All these cube films would be better off written with a straightforward scifi thriller feel, properly explained and better directed. Leave all the arty farty, confusing, modernist angle out all together and give us a story with logic and development we can enjoy. The next offering is Cube Zero, and it is a prequel.....imo if you need prequels, either your original story wasn’t told properly....or the prequal should have been the first one! Well, I guess some may argue that point, but either way.....Cube has lost its way....if it even had one in the first place eh!
I think the only part I liked at all of Cube 2, iirc, is at the end when the leader of the military unit testing the 'hypercube' looks at the timer on his watch, stops it, and says something about recording how long the test was. Also lol at everyone asking you to review Cube because they'd 'love to hear your thoughts on it', you literally spelled out your thoughts on the first during your review of the sequel and prequel. Also I want to make a first film in a series and call it a prequel just to irk pedants XD
i never saw the first cube before I randomly caught this movie on the sci fi channel like 15 years ago one night while I was playing FFxi, so I didn't pay too close attention to it. I liked it.
Just rewatched cube for the first time in like 10 years and love it, searched for cube 2... searched for a review to laugh at straight after hahh. Cheers dude
Great ass review it's clear the Saw movies was inspired but Cube the first one is always the best of course cause was to suspenseful the others are garbage I hate when you have a good movie then they trash and burn the rest of the series.
Sadly this was my first cube movie watched it when was young and borrowed it from the library, having forgotten about it after all these and just having watched your review reminded me why i didnt like it. They killed the last survivor what a punch in the gut to the viewer. Wish i had watched the first film it sounds a whole lot substantial.
I just watched Cube for the first time and wanted to see what else there was. The reason I was curious is this phenomenal series of games called Zero Escape. If you like Cube, I bet you'd love ZE. It kinda baffles me that anyone would A: Think a sequel to Cube was a good idea and B: Forget everything that made the original so great.
I've always been curious deusdeacon, how'd you come up with that name? I use the name "Rigor Mortis" because I mainly think its sounds cool, and it has to do with death, plus I'm a huge zombie fan. I just want to know the inspiration behind it. lol
I remember liking all the cube movies. Guess I'll have to go back and re-watch and see. I was a really big fan of the first one, so I might be squed. I like pi too. Not Requiem for a dream though. Gattaca, dark city, existenz, videodrome altered states. All that nonsense, love it all. Matrix is dumb but I do like the big shoorup at the end where they murder that poor room
Honestly I'm that guy who liked Hypercube, I know it's not that great, but it was the first one I saw and I was just absolutely thrilled with the novel premise, so much so that I forgave all of its many shortcomings. And if it hadn't been for this movie, no telling how long I would have had to wait to see the original.
I'm in the same boat, not to mention they really played up the worldbuilding more in this one I would have loved to learn more about the group monitoring everything.
I'm perfectly fine with a movie being unclear or confusing.... so long as it is rounded up, explained and makes sense at the end. It didn't. It was very confusing what the motive was for this cube, if anything. Sure, the first movie wasn't clear why they were in the cube either, but it wasn't necessary to know exactly what was going on because emphasis was placed on the situation itself being more important than the "why are we in here." The cleverness and realism glued it together and gave it a point. Like you said, in this one the motive was non-existent and plenty of questions were purposely introduced but none of them were answered. It was just a big ball of nonsense. Or, as you might prefer, a big tesseract of nonsense.
This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. My father made us watch it one year at Christmas, and mom and I were ready to murder him. He actually started watching the special features and that's when we snapped. One set, zero actors!
That's because Cube 2 is complete shit. Cube Zero is stupid but at least they have good characters(more the most part) and good effects. This has nothing
okay I actually watched this yesterday and I have to say I agree 100% with you now I mean wow that was a horrendous movie only thing I liked is the soundtrack u used for the image at the start I love soundtracks like that
Could u review Cube I’m curious as to what you thought. I didn’t think Cube 2 was that bad. It would have been cool if it was a little darker and had better atmosphere. Comparing the movies together I agree the First is way better but it’s far from a bad movie.
After discovering SCP I now think that these people are basically D Class personnel. Sent on missions with death being a certainty. Just as a test. Love your reviews. So much better than many “professional critics” on UA-cam.
Didn't the movie show something like that: Kate comes out the guys hold her and then put the bracket from Sasha in a container and he said let me see if something got recorded or something like that then get shot. One person who suppose to be the new General and received a phone call. Phase 2 is completed. And the camera zoom out we see wave's and then how everyone go out of the facility or something like that.
Him talking about the first makes me think if they wanted to pull the call back or connecting the movies thing they could have made them only use first names and at the end during his errr "sentencing" we find out his last name is kazan
Man you do amazing reviews. I feel like this movie could have been really good if they understood tone and how important lighting is along with good writing which they didn't have in this movie. They spoke to the audience like they were children but had a confusing ending that makes the writers look smart but actually are dense. I really wish there were more interesting death scenes but they are so boring and predictable. Where's the fear of the cube? Its just a fear of Simon in this one.
Deusdaecon Reviews I just feel like they have a great setup for a movie but they have to hire the right actors, writers, and they need to get a film crew who actually knows how to shoot a scene. Movies have to be made carefully because one mistake can ruin it. Dont get me wrong the first cube wasn't perfect but the mystery vibe was still there along with the surprise when Quentin kills Holloway. I feel like they didn't build up to anything in this movie except the obvious reveal that 60659 is the time it self destructs. If you wanna make more characters that's fine but at least make them worth something. A good character needs to have drawbacks and things that they are good at, but the two handicaps in the group were just that, handicaps. They had no redeeming qualities and in retrospect should have been left behind for endangering the group. Take Kazan for example. He actually had use and revealed that some of the traps were activated by audio. (Never once did I ever ask why he had the mental illness by the way) But the two handicaps never did anything. Maybe Sasha could have been able to have something like better hearing then the rest of the group due to her poor eyesight, signaling the group to get away from the prism death trap sooner. And they could have gotten rid of Jerry's character by sacrificing his life for maybe Mrs. Payley. Simon not liking that she gets people killed would leave her in the room she dies in, in the movie. This gives Simon a Quentin type personality but the group doesnt run from him immediately because he tells the group before hand that he's a private investigator looking for a girl. Simon tells the group that she was dead weight and she was gonna get someone else killed. The group reluctantly agrees to go with him. Later in the movie they find the missing girl but she dies later in some trap (not immediately because you have to build her character and we also can't make it painfully obvious she isn't gonna die) Simon goes through grief and places the blame on everyone else, beginning to attack Kate for not doing more despite not being able to do anything. Simon gets restrained by the remainder of the group and Simon starts to ponder if it was even worth it and starts to go through depression. The group finds the second Jerry and Simon is confused and angry. Not being able to cope with his emotions he kills Jerry and he sees the watch. It says 6:01:00 At that moment Sasha realizes that the code 60659 represents the time but they are not sure what for. They all start going forward but in vain. Suddenly as they open more doors another Simon comes in and is from a timeline where he did go fully insane (aka the one we saw in the movie) Kate takes sasha and Max and they go into a different room without thinking. Thinking that she got Julia killed Kate cries next to sasha. The watch now says 6:05:30 the last three watch as the place starts to fall apart and Simon comes in and he makes short work of Sasha, stabbing her. Max stands in the way of Simon and he tells Kate to escape. She jumps through but before she fully gets through She hears Max hit the floor. Simon tries to jump through as well but he's too late, the room destroys Simon and Kate slowly wakes up, waking up in the same water but Kazan is in the water, looking down at her. Kate leans up and grabs Kazans hand getting out and walking down a bright hallway. The movie flashes white and the credits roll. Of course this is just a rough draft of what it could be but we didn't need the ending we got for cube 2.
The only thing that confuses the fuck out of me is the dramatic change in cinematography as soon as the blond woman gets out of the cube. Seriously, the part outside of the cube looks like something how Stanley Kubrick would frame a scene and it looks incredible but during the time they're in the cube the camera placement is horrendously bad.
I think the cinematography was thrown by set design. The bright environment makes the comparatively darker cast pop out. The lack of directional lighting and shadows throws off depth of field. The actors appear closer to the audience, while the environment appears farther away. Or at least large and spacious. I get that they wanted this to be more sleek and futuristic, but it just throws everything off.
If you have netflix i would highly recommend watching The Platform a soanish movie that is more of a spiritual successor of cube than this movie seriously it is such a good movie
It was Cube 2 that got me hooked into the Cube trilogy. Needless to say, it is and was a great film to me. Been binge watching you since this morning and even subbed. I hope you say something positive at the end of this review about the movie that I hold near and dear or if not, in the least sway me to be just as disgusted as you are over the film. otherwise you'll come off as nit picking, which I won't/don't care for. 🤷🏽
their hypothesis was wrong, leaven says trapped rooms were indicated by prime numbers, this was the wrong part, traps were actually indicated by powers of prime numbers, meaning that the codes still indicated which rooms were trapped
@@deusdeaconReviews thank you for the reply... If you happen to see this.... Very much enjoying your channel for the movie reviews not much of a gamer.....recent subscriber keep up the fabulous work... Love your voice! Don't forget the movies!
In the other two cube movies the prisoners were in jumpsuits with their names printed on them. In this one they are in their street clothing which shows their civilian status. The colonel of course has his military suit on and Kate looks a bit like FBI. The civilian clothing is meant to exemplify the fact that they were civilian contractors. The colors of the rooms are meant to be a symbol of the Rubix cube. The tessaract is a common stonemason or new age symbol. It can also be seen in A Wrinkle In Time. The movie itself has an undertone paralleling it with MK Ultra mind control. I came to this conclusion after seeing Cube Zero and they made such a big deal about consent forms. The other two cube movies had the colored rooms and mechanical traps which triggered the prisoners in a much more animalistic level than the white cold and clinical feel of the second cube with the highly scientific traps.
Meanings, representations, visual references whether those are indeed what the film is going for (I have my doubts) mean absolutely diddly squat if the film is utter arse gravy, maybe they should've spent more time on making a good story rather then symbols for stone masonry.
do you have any plans reviewing the original cube? The only reason i watched it in the first place was because of this review back in the blip days, and i am glad i did!
Something that really bothered me with cube 2 is that it just felt boring :/ in the first cube it was all about trying to understand the numbers, avoiding the traps, making progress, but in cube 2, they're all just wondering around not really doing anything or anything going on.. not to mention all the traps suck
It sounds strange, but i have the Donald Duck remake on the christmas special of an italian magazine about Mikey Mouse when I was 10. I said to you that it sounds strange
1:40 yeah I really don't like design of the cube in this not only does the mostly bright white walls hurt to look at after awhile but it has the same aesthetic of an Apple store
Have you done a review for Cube? It seems like you liked that movie, and it seems odd that you would review a sequel without reviewing the original, so I am wondering if you had reviewed Cube, but it was taken down from UA-cam or something like that.
eh, I was just to inform you and stuff if you didn't know they 'had' names And in the end I really liked your review for this movie, I saw it yesterday and I thought it was boring :P BTW, yes it all does add nothing to the name thing but in case you're interested, here's the original script to the sequel that was scrapped entirely in favour for the one that ended up happening: www.horrorsnotdead.com/Hypercube%28Final%20Draft%29.pdf
Nevermind. Some are surnames, some are names (like, Quentin is a name, while most of the other prisons are used as surnames). If they were adressed by names, then Worth would qualify as The Danza (David Hewlett - David Worth, Dave Johnson (a character from movie _Nothing_)...). Enough of this name offtopicness for today
Years later and I still come back to your videos. Thanks for the hours of content.
Hypercube?
Oh dear. They should have just gone with the classic. Cube 2: Electric Cubealoo.
xD
That's pretty funny dude
You received a genuine laugh here.
At least they didn't call it Cube 2: The Cubening.
Classic *thumbs up*
Cube: *Is the movie that gave pagophobia/the fear of cubes*
Cube 2: *Is the movie that didn't do anything*
The new vacuum packed protagonist. Sealed for freshness, acting ability not guaranteed. XD
The first cube was really good though
+LaBine Boys Yes indeed, One of the best.
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It’s one of my favourite movies
The third is ok. I always recommend 1 and 3, 2 as a curiosity
i dont know why but this series alwasy fucked with my head
Cube³ : Ultracube
Its actual cube zero
Rubicks cube: guy solving a cube for 2 hours
Or a Penteract
Cube3 cubed
Cube 5: Circle
Saw was so inspired by Cube hopefully Saw is another series you review down the line if you want especially since 8 is coming out
michael bosket hell no, the short film of “Saw” of which the series is based on was in development even before Cube was written
@@Jprager the short film was 2003 cube was 1997
Sasha never trips on the ladders built into the floor.
My question is why is there always a blonde chick as a main character lol
its a weird Hollywood thing, actresses always need to be blonde, even if they're hispanic or asian.
@@arthas640 you mean a Canadian thing?
@@insertname1841 probably appears in canadian cinema alot too, I'm just using "Hollywood" in the generic "american/canadian film making" sense. Hollywood (in the California sense) established the blonde lead trope and it's sort of become the standard
Because they have more fun
@@arthas640 Blonde is beautiful. Simple as
Characters grappling with unknown concepts proved immensely frustrating in comparison to the original Cube where the protagonists had every tool in front of them to solve the puzzle and didn't wander through a white room for 1 and a half hours.
I think it would have been cooler if they took the time travel portion a little bit further and ignored the parallel universe thing a bit. So in the beginning when the girl is pulled upwards by Simon that's cool. It's explains what happened in the beginning. When we see Kate through the moving wall in the background at the beginning and then we see Kate looking at herself through the moving wall on the opposite side later in the film...that's cool. I'd have loved for time to mean nothing, but have things be one dimension, so at least things get explained...not just written off as "this was in another dimension."
It'd make them seeing themselves die more impactful and more consequential. Could the death be avoided? Could their own actions trying to avoid that death lead them to that death, etc. Just a thought.
1:58 she didn't get pulled. She actually fell due to the gravity being shifted in that room. Also the opening scene in this movie wasn't bloody is because not all rooms are designed to kill you.
no. She got "pulled" because it was supposed to be simon pulling her when he finds her later on in the movie, nothing to do with gravity, Also I didn't complain about the lack of blood, At all I mention it as a difference to first film certainly, I was more saying that the film has shit atmosphere because of the terrible cinematography, which Director/cinematographer andre sekula should know better, All of this I explain quite clearly in the video.
And so Wiki says the gravity was flipped. Well what do you know, Wiki... Though it was about to happen to Max when he saw Julia lying in the other room out there, he tried to go through the 'door' and hung on tight because he was about to float up or something.
Salem Baron Hi and I hope you have a nice day. Second of all, I watched that scene where Holloway and Worth tell their names to each other (Helen and David respectively), will that do? I'd love to point that scene in the movie but in UA-cam most of popular movies get either copyrighted or hilariously small sized or too fast (and that is also mentioned in the script, go Google "imsdb cube" if you don't believe me. And that upwards pull of Becky didn't really look like anything to me (neither strong grab nor reversed gravity) but synopsis let me know of some other details of the movie and so, and I thought it might be gravity until it was revealed that Simon actually pulled her up and the scene at the beginning was just a different dimension! Yeah, how foolish I was! Lol! But that first paragraph of Cube 2 synopsis was not edited into something else on its Wiki page so I doubt the "every dumbass can write something into Wikipedia and it stays until its [sic] changed" situation. If a false fact is added to a Wiki page, it gets edited out rather quickly and not left hanging for months and months on there.
Retarded my ass.
i dont agree that this film is shite. its easy for arse kissers to agree with these "kitchen pundits" (why though i dont get?) if you remember in the first film leven says that if they had stayed in the first room they would have escaped @Repollo ,, Also "language timothy!"- note= i feel the alternative ending is essential.
I just wanna say THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD DUDE
Musou Masters you had a messed up childhood then
HersheyMan12399 I know right?
I’m a Gaint Wonka Bar lol I scene this a child as well I remember it this and final destination and urban legends lol my dad watched all these crazy movies he loved horror and These movies made me love horror so yes these are indeed mines hers and many others child hood trauma movies 😩 lmfao doesn’t mean we had a messed up childhood we had parents with character
same! my mom rented this back then and that sex scene is super awkward and scary for me. Rewatched this a while ago since I haven't watch the rest of the trilogy and it seriously is dumb now. Your raging hormones should already be overridden by your need to survive!
I liked this one.
Great sense of humor, 10/10 as soon as jerry entered the cube it was obvious he was dead
I like the way how he expands on why it's a bad scene rather than any other just saying its shit and I find it really helpful and interesting
concept of multidimensional cube was interesting, still overall inferior to both cube and zero.
Cube Zero felt like a cheap sequel, even though the story was decent. I actually loved Cube 2, I think the concept of dimensions and time is extremely interesting.
Nice ideas, poor execution. Correct? I really did like the idea of the cubes having different gravity and paths, that could have been really interesting during the final chase!
Jer L the dimensions were a brilliant concept, but they did practically nothing with this concept, they could've let creativity flow.
Watching your rants it made me think. What If all your complaints were on directors part intentional.
Why remove the numbers, why make this cube impossible to escape, Why leave them with knifes and belts and nothing useful and why have a bunch of random shmucks that don't have a niche. Maybe this cube was a way to test there patients. If they had stayed in one room eventually all rooms would have merged and they could have escaped. But left them traps and options to opt out of life early.
This movie wasn't the best honestly though.
...or its just badly written
@@silmeerman9471 oh, it definitely is, but it’s nice to think that maybe, just maybe, it was intentional.
It’s 100% bad writing but i wish it wasn’t.
I've been trying to find this movie for _years_ because I remember seeing the scene of the hot girl dying while having sex, and thinking to myself (as a young child) that it was the stupidest scene I had ever seen, and it continues to be to this day.
Artaku Blue Death while having sex is a common cliché in horror movies, except that they don't do it so stupidly, i wonder where the guys who made this got a diploma
The next cube will be a 2 hours of watching a guy solve 3 cubes
i'd love to see a sequel where they have a really dumb guy try to solve the more puzzle like original cube. Just have him making dumb mistakes and getting lost while a couple other idiots tag along.
@@arthas640 or they could make it so a seemingly dumb person seemingly has incrediply luck solving and surviving things they shouldt infuriating the cube operaters till they go in to kill them themselves thinking he must be a hacker or insider only to find out the "dumb" guy was actually using his alt universe selves to test each room to find the solution THEN went threw then when the miltary guys think they have the dude corner hundreds of alt versions of him flood the cube with the final scene being the same pool from two but its hundreds of the same guy start charging out of it with guns stolen from the miltary guys it play of there multidiementsial concept and would give people some shadenfredau that the people running this cruel expirement get some violent justice
20:33-20:53 Ridley Scott needed to hear that bit; now Covenant happened and damage is done.
Cut the guy some slack. The studio really fucked with his alien prequel idea so he was constantly trying to do damage control.
Then take that slack back because of his BS over his stupid Last Duel failing
I have an early draft of the Cube 2 script, and it's MUCH different. I haven't read the entire thing yet, but it's way different from the film. The only similarity is that it has some of the same traps. If you want a copy of this and the first film's script, I'll email them to you, if you want to give me an email address. Just keep them private if I do send them.
What was the original ending
Good review imo. I loved the 4D concept...but as the reviewer says the writing is appalling, almost nonsensical. Confusing the viewer just for the sake of video art is not clever...it just makes you ask why you wasted good money on it. The ending of C2 is especially badly done. The sole survivor is unceremoniously shot without a word, by the Cube’s creators/managers....why? There’s not even a clue. It leaves one feeling at best cheated. What a shame! All these cube films would be better off written with a straightforward scifi thriller feel, properly explained and better directed. Leave all the arty farty, confusing, modernist angle out all together and give us a story with logic and development we can enjoy. The next offering is Cube Zero, and it is a prequel.....imo if you need prequels, either your original story wasn’t told properly....or the prequal should have been the first one! Well, I guess some may argue that point, but either way.....Cube has lost its way....if it even had one in the first place eh!
I think the only part I liked at all of Cube 2, iirc, is at the end when the leader of the military unit testing the 'hypercube' looks at the timer on his watch, stops it, and says something about recording how long the test was.
Also lol at everyone asking you to review Cube because they'd 'love to hear your thoughts on it', you literally spelled out your thoughts on the first during your review of the sequel and prequel.
Also I want to make a first film in a series and call it a prequel just to irk pedants XD
i never saw the first cube before I randomly caught this movie on the sci fi channel like 15 years ago one night while I was playing FFxi, so I didn't pay too close attention to it. I liked it.
I saw this about that long ago too. wonder if we watched it at the same time…
The orginal CUBE was terrifying but i liked the new one too
New Cube?
@@honestdave Hypercube
@@RebelKitty19 oh I thought you where talking about Cube Zero or a remake I didn't know about
Simon gave me some Jack Torrence vibes.
Just rewatched cube for the first time in like 10 years and love it, searched for cube 2... searched for a review to laugh at straight after hahh. Cheers dude
Great ass review it's clear the Saw movies was inspired but Cube the first one is always the best of course cause was to suspenseful the others are garbage I hate when you have a good movie then they trash and burn the rest of the series.
**too*
That's what I was thinking too, when I first watched _Saw II_, I was like, "This suspiciously reminds me of _Cube_."
Agreed. Just look at Hellraiser
George Bean really ? I didn't even get through saw 2 I liked saw 6 tho
Sadly this was my first cube movie watched it when was young and borrowed it from the library, having forgotten about it after all these and just having watched your review reminded me why i didnt like it. They killed the last survivor what a punch in the gut to the viewer. Wish i had watched the first film it sounds a whole lot substantial.
When the whole party gets TPKed by a gelatinous cube and you don't want to end the campaign.
Literally liked this because of the intro.
well, i loved hipercube. it made me want to watch the first one the third one and the twiglight? episode it was based of!
I just watched Cube for the first time and wanted to see what else there was. The reason I was curious is this phenomenal series of games called Zero Escape. If you like Cube, I bet you'd love ZE. It kinda baffles me that anyone would A: Think a sequel to Cube was a good idea and B: Forget everything that made the original so great.
Just last night I had a dream about The Cube, about a Pre-Cube.
Great review mate
The oceans 11 style collage montage of what they were last doing killed me .. oh no the spinning papier mache corpses mid coitus
Dude wheres my car plot made more sense and had better writers and actors same could be said with Gigli and downsizing
this is just a paranormal slasher that takes place in a funky magic box
Until someone unbreaks the seal and opens the cube, participants are both alive and dead.
11:51
CRITICAL HIT!!
You were killed by:
i'm a private investigator
I've always been curious deusdeacon, how'd you come up with that name? I use the name "Rigor Mortis" because I mainly think its sounds cool, and it has to do with death, plus I'm a huge zombie fan. I just want to know the inspiration behind it. lol
well explained loved the commentary
I would love to see a version of the cube made by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, they are so good at bottle episodes and story telling.
I remember liking all the cube movies. Guess I'll have to go back and re-watch and see. I was a really big fan of the first one, so I might be squed. I like pi too. Not Requiem for a dream though. Gattaca, dark city, existenz, videodrome altered states. All that nonsense, love it all. Matrix is dumb but I do like the big shoorup at the end where they murder that poor room
@Kaian凯安 good question. Maybe I meant my opinion was off skew
Great video!
cant wait for you to review the CUBE remake october 22 2021
why ? its just the first one again, from what I can tell its a shot for shot remake pretty much
Honestly I'm that guy who liked Hypercube, I know it's not that great, but it was the first one I saw and I was just absolutely thrilled with the novel premise, so much so that I forgave all of its many shortcomings. And if it hadn't been for this movie, no telling how long I would have had to wait to see the original.
I'm in the same boat, not to mention they really played up the worldbuilding more in this one I would have loved to learn more about the group monitoring everything.
Sorry fellas but this one was definitely trash
I'm perfectly fine with a movie being unclear or confusing....
so long as it is rounded up, explained and makes sense at the end.
It didn't.
It was very confusing what the motive was for this cube, if anything.
Sure, the first movie wasn't clear why they were in the cube either, but it wasn't necessary to know exactly what was going on because emphasis was placed on the situation itself being more important than the "why are we in here." The cleverness and realism glued it together and gave it a point.
Like you said, in this one the motive was non-existent and plenty of questions were purposely introduced but none of them were answered. It was just a big ball of nonsense. Or, as you might prefer, a big tesseract of nonsense.
Ohhh yeah, I'm about to watch the 3rd one 😅
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This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. My father made us watch it one year at Christmas, and mom and I were ready to murder him. He actually started watching the special features and that's when we snapped. One set, zero actors!
Got a subscription off of this one man lol love it
This film feels like a fan made sequel for UA-cam, made by people who just watched the original without thinking about the deeper stuff in the film.
I must be dumb, because I didn't know the truth about 60659 until the end.
You'll be surprised to know that there is a game based off of this series of movies called half dead.
How do you not have the original Cube?
he said "it didn't belong on this channel" so im guessing he thinks it doesnt belong alongside the schlock he normally reviews
Yeah, Well, You Know, That's Just Like, Your Opinion, Man
Yes, Yes it is.
have you reviewed the first? It doesn't seem to be on your youtube page.
He doesn't need to.
yeah but I'd still like to hear his take on it and what not.
I pref Cube Zero to Cube 2
That's because Cube 2 is complete shit. Cube Zero is stupid but at least they have good characters(more the most part) and good effects. This has nothing
okay I actually watched this yesterday and I have to say I agree 100% with you now I mean wow that was a horrendous movie only thing I liked is the soundtrack u used for the image at the start I love soundtracks like that
I glanced at the script for the first Cube, and I can see why Natali didn't go with that ending. It's just sort of "meh, that's it?" kind of scene.
Could u review Cube I’m curious as to what you thought. I didn’t think Cube 2 was that bad. It would have been cool if it was a little darker and had better atmosphere. Comparing the movies together I agree the First is way better but it’s far from a bad movie.
After discovering SCP I now think that these people are basically D Class personnel. Sent on missions with death being a certainty. Just as a test. Love your reviews. So much better than many “professional critics” on UA-cam.
Thank you I really appreciate that
Didn't the movie show something like that: Kate comes out the guys hold her and then put the bracket from Sasha in a container and he said let me see if something got recorded or something like that then get shot. One person who suppose to be the new General and received a phone call. Phase 2 is completed.
And the camera zoom out we see wave's and then how everyone go out of the facility or something like that.
Him talking about the first makes me think if they wanted to pull the call back or connecting the movies thing they could have made them only use first names and at the end during his errr "sentencing" we find out his last name is kazan
"it's a lazy way to make the writer look a lot smarter than they are" daaaaaaaamn
Man you do amazing reviews. I feel like this movie could have been really good if they understood tone and how important lighting is along with good writing which they didn't have in this movie. They spoke to the audience like they were children but had a confusing ending that makes the writers look smart but actually are dense. I really wish there were more interesting death scenes but they are so boring and predictable. Where's the fear of the cube? Its just a fear of Simon in this one.
thats a very good point its called cube not simon, the focus was all wrong.
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I just feel like they have a great setup for a movie but they have to hire the right actors, writers, and they need to get a film crew who actually knows how to shoot a scene. Movies have to be made carefully because one mistake can ruin it. Dont get me wrong the first cube wasn't perfect but the mystery vibe was still there along with the surprise when Quentin kills Holloway. I feel like they didn't build up to anything in this movie except the obvious reveal that 60659 is the time it self destructs. If you wanna make more characters that's fine but at least make them worth something. A good character needs to have drawbacks and things that they are good at, but the two handicaps in the group were just that, handicaps. They had no redeeming qualities and in retrospect should have been left behind for endangering the group. Take Kazan for example. He actually had use and revealed that some of the traps were activated by audio. (Never once did I ever ask why he had the mental illness by the way) But the two handicaps never did anything. Maybe Sasha could have been able to have something like better hearing then the rest of the group due to her poor eyesight, signaling the group to get away from the prism death trap sooner. And they could have gotten rid of Jerry's character by sacrificing his life for maybe Mrs. Payley. Simon not liking that she gets people killed would leave her in the room she dies in, in the movie. This gives Simon a Quentin type personality but the group doesnt run from him immediately because he tells the group before hand that he's a private investigator looking for a girl. Simon tells the group that she was dead weight and she was gonna get someone else killed. The group reluctantly agrees to go with him. Later in the movie they find the missing girl but she dies later in some trap (not immediately because you have to build her character and we also can't make it painfully obvious she isn't gonna die) Simon goes through grief and places the blame on everyone else, beginning to attack Kate for not doing more despite not being able to do anything. Simon gets restrained by the remainder of the group and Simon starts to ponder if it was even worth it and starts to go through depression. The group finds the second Jerry and Simon is confused and angry. Not being able to cope with his emotions he kills Jerry and he sees the watch. It says 6:01:00
At that moment Sasha realizes that the code 60659 represents the time but they are not sure what for. They all start going forward but in vain. Suddenly as they open more doors another Simon comes in and is from a timeline where he did go fully insane (aka the one we saw in the movie) Kate takes sasha and Max and they go into a different room without thinking. Thinking that she got Julia killed Kate cries next to sasha. The watch now says 6:05:30 the last three watch as the place starts to fall apart and Simon comes in and he makes short work of Sasha, stabbing her. Max stands in the way of Simon and he tells Kate to escape. She jumps through but before she fully gets through She hears Max hit the floor. Simon tries to jump through as well but he's too late, the room destroys Simon and Kate slowly wakes up, waking up in the same water but Kazan is in the water, looking down at her. Kate leans up and grabs Kazans hand getting out and walking down a bright hallway. The movie flashes white and the credits roll. Of course this is just a rough draft of what it could be but we didn't need the ending we got for cube 2.
Cube should be rebooted
No just leave it alone
@@honestdave I say remake Cube Zero not Cube 2
@@royalpain9281 Cube zero wasn't bad it just had some dumb dialogue. I did like the 1 eyed villain though. As for Cube 2 it was a piece of shit
The only thing that confuses the fuck out of me is the dramatic change in cinematography as soon as the blond woman gets out of the cube. Seriously, the part outside of the cube looks like something how Stanley Kubrick would frame a scene and it looks incredible but during the time they're in the cube the camera placement is horrendously bad.
I love watching this film with friends to laugh and make fun of it
Totally agreed
I think the cinematography was thrown by set design. The bright environment makes the comparatively darker cast pop out. The lack of directional lighting and shadows throws off depth of field. The actors appear closer to the audience, while the environment appears farther away. Or at least large and spacious. I get that they wanted this to be more sleek and futuristic, but it just throws everything off.
is that a power plug half way up your wall and if so is it done by you?
is what done by me ? its a power socket
If you have netflix i would highly recommend watching The Platform
a soanish movie that is more of a spiritual successor of cube than this movie
seriously it is such a good movie
Oh yea the one was pretty unique.
It was Cube 2 that got me hooked into the Cube trilogy. Needless to say, it is and was a great film to me. Been binge watching you since this morning and even subbed. I hope you say something positive at the end of this review about the movie that I hold near and dear or if not, in the least sway me to be just as disgusted as you are over the film. otherwise you'll come off as nit picking, which I won't/don't care for. 🤷🏽
" Cause that makes sense🤣" Amanda from Saw design this no escape
the numbers in the corridors in "Cube" didnt tell you if it was trapped or not. they thought that at first but turned out to be wrong.
their hypothesis was wrong, leaven says trapped rooms were indicated by prime numbers, this was the wrong part, traps were actually indicated by powers of prime numbers, meaning that the codes still indicated which rooms were trapped
There is NOTHING wrong with using Captain Jack jokes. Feel free.
I can't find the original review was it copyrighted?
This is a very old video, at the time for some reason i wasn't doing the first films in a series just its sequels so i never did a review of cube.
@@deusdeaconReviews thank you for the reply... If you happen to see this.... Very much enjoying your channel for the movie reviews not much of a gamer.....recent subscriber keep up the fabulous work... Love your voice! Don't forget the movies!
In the other two cube movies the prisoners were in jumpsuits with their names printed on them. In this one they are in their street clothing which shows their civilian status. The colonel of course has his military suit on and Kate looks a bit like FBI. The civilian clothing is meant to exemplify the fact that they were civilian contractors. The colors of the rooms are meant to be a symbol of the Rubix cube. The tessaract is a common stonemason or new age symbol. It can also be seen in A Wrinkle In Time. The movie itself has an undertone paralleling it with MK Ultra mind control. I came to this conclusion after seeing Cube Zero and they made such a big deal about consent forms. The other two cube movies had the colored rooms and mechanical traps which triggered the prisoners in a much more animalistic level than the white cold and clinical feel of the second cube with the highly scientific traps.
Meanings, representations, visual references whether those are indeed what the film is going for (I have my doubts) mean absolutely diddly squat if the film is utter arse gravy, maybe they should've spent more time on making a good story rather then symbols for stone masonry.
People killing each other... Didn't need the cube setting at all
11:30 omg is that tod howard?
“It just works”
do you have any plans reviewing the original cube? The only reason i watched it in the first place was because of this review back in the blip days, and i am glad i did!
The Cube remake comes out at the end of the year, hopefully better then the other 2 movies.
Looks to me like a almost shot for shot remake so if you’ve seen the first film its pretty irrelevant, good for the japanese audience though
Where was Qbert?
I watched the first cube movie and i thought it was meh at best not good but just okay
Why did you review this and Cube:Zero and not the original cube? I would like to see that review.
I did explain why at the start of this video
Something that really bothered me with cube 2 is that it just felt boring :/ in the first cube it was all about trying to understand the numbers, avoiding the traps, making progress, but in cube 2, they're all just wondering around not really doing anything or anything going on.. not to mention all the traps suck
Cube 2 was incorporating Logic past the 4th spatial dimension.
actually in cibe 1 they said if the y didn't move an inch theyd made it out easily so the lawyer was till nnow the smartest person in there
That was a very different installation, and its pretty obvious the one in this film did work in any kind of logical way.
eeh ur right
It sounds strange, but i have the Donald Duck remake on the christmas special of an italian magazine about Mikey Mouse when I was 10.
I said to you that it sounds strange
i like your reviews. and you are certainoly wonderful to listen to and see. ^...^
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that.
Deusdaecon Reviews no problem hun. I'm actually watching your review on cube zero now. ^...^ lots of love ^...^
Awesome hope you enjoy.
Deusdaecon Reviews I will
1:40 yeah I really don't like design of the cube in this not only does the mostly bright white walls hurt to look at after awhile but it has the same aesthetic of an Apple store
What did the crystals do to miss bailey? I don't understand?
Paul Stockdale me neither. The certainly didn't decapitate her as they did the alternate Simon.
I love the Cube trio movies! Obviously, the first movie is best, but the sequels are so campy & cheesy, I still like them.
Have you done a review for Cube? It seems like you liked that movie, and it seems odd that you would review a sequel without reviewing the original, so I am wondering if you had reviewed Cube, but it was taken down from UA-cam or something like that.
+LordNifty No i didnt review cube mainly because I basically reviewed it in this video so i would just be repeating myself
I still like the second cube because of the weird lore and syfi.
I like Cube 2. I think Valve like it too.
I see what you did there
Holloway is actually just a surname, her real name was Helen.
I'm really not sure how thats relevant at all, In the first cube film all the characters were identified, referred to and credited by there last name.
Some first names are on the Wiki page of this movie if anything.
Nice review so far btw ;)
Again I'm just trying to understand how thats relevant to any of the points I made about names ?
eh, I was just to inform you and stuff if you didn't know they 'had' names
And in the end I really liked your review for this movie, I saw it yesterday and I thought it was boring :P BTW, yes it all does add nothing to the name thing but in case you're interested, here's the original script to the sequel that was scrapped entirely in favour for the one that ended up happening: www.horrorsnotdead.com/Hypercube%28Final%20Draft%29.pdf
Nevermind. Some are surnames, some are names (like, Quentin is a name, while most of the other prisons are used as surnames). If they were adressed by names, then Worth would qualify as The Danza (David Hewlett - David Worth, Dave Johnson (a character from movie _Nothing_)...).
Enough of this name offtopicness for today