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They should REALLY have stopped at Cube 1.
by Anon (movies profile)
May 13, 2006
5
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8 people found this review helpful
This is another rubbish Cube film.
The original was a top film, a political philosophical statement.
Hypercube was pretentious rubbish. Cube zero is more of the same.
One of the great points about the original Cube and one of the factors that made it so scary was that the Cube itself was an efficient machine that could not be reasoned with and made no mistakes according to the rules that it adhered to. The Cube was something of a metaphor for human society or the human mind perhaps. The characters trapped in the cube could be seen as elements of the human psyche or perhaps just stereotyped individuals lost in society again depending on whether you saw the cube as a metaphorical mind or society respectively.
Cube Zero makes the fatal mistake of going outside the Cube and putting humans in the loop. They operate the Cube and show it to be fallible and this means the Cube is not scary any more. It represents nothing of importance, the individuals trapped in the Cube are prisoners but in a political sense and the whole invention of the plethora of cubes that appear to be out there is some sort of product of a totalitarian regime. The Cube itself seems to be pretty pointless then but this is not explained at all.
The gore content is high but the deaths are cliched and have no extra philosophical signficance as in Cube 1 (Wren had his eyes sprayed out with acid just after making the comment 'you just have to look directly in front of you' (or words to that effect).
So all in all, this is another pointless film that didn't need to be made. It is as bad as Hypercube with poor acting and nothing interesting or original in it at all. In sum, I am sure I could have done better myself. |
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