Its been a much interesting movie series, which I liked a lot for the same reason. It starts over a concept only without using lots of special effects or surrounding efforts and keep you bind in it till the end and make an impact that you end up discussing about it later on. A kind of cinema that involves your mind and you see much more than what’s being shown on screen.
Title: Cube
Release Date: 11 July 1998 [Netherlands]
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Writers: Andre Bijelic, Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Nicole Da Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings, Wayne Robson, Maurice Dean Wint
Seven complete strangers of widely varying personality are kept under a cube like structure having six door at six faces. Each door opens in another cube. Out of these all cubes, some are trapped. All characters trying to figure out the way to out with brainstorming over the question that who might have built the place of dimension 26x26x26 rooms.
Title: Cube 2: Hypercube
Release Date: 15 April 2003 [USA]
Director: Andrzej Sekula
Writers: Sean Hood
Actors: Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung, Mathew Ferguson, Neil Crone, Barbara Gordon, Lindsay Connell, Greer Kent, Bruce Grey, Philip Akin, Paul Robbins, Andrew Scorer
Cube got one more dimension. Strangers are now eight and things got more names like connection to one big weapon manufacturer company and a legend hacker, who designed the concept, but the game is still the same with special effects added this time as we got alternate realities. Confusing?? Watch it.
Title: Cube Zero
Release Date: 16 December 2004
Director: Ernie Barbarash
Writers: Ernie Barbarash
Actors: Zachary Bennett, David Huband, Stephanie Moore, Martin Roach, Terri Hawkes, Richard McMillan, Mike, Tony Munch, Micheal Riley, Joshua Peace, Diego Klattenhoff, Alexia Flippeos, Jasmin Gelio, Fernando Cursione, Araxi Arslanian
They called it Zero to mention that its where it started, but its still the same confused and complicated. Although its not that mind game like the earlier two. I mean you cant make the same thrill over the same concept again and again, but its like building up the blocks left open in other two parts. No one can resist watching the third one, if have watched any of the two.
So, this was the review of the second set of movies, I personally found like some collector’s edition. Must watch.
1 and 3 seem to be the best and keep it grounded in some kind of (far flung) reality (or are at least slightly plausable) where the second one seems to try to impress us with pan-dimensional nonsense. I prefer my cubes rooted in the physical.
Great villan in the 3rd film – enjoy seeing an actor chewing up the scenery.