Cube 2: Hypercube
2002 Canadian film
Cube 2: Hypercube (stylized on-screen as Cube²: Hypercube) is a 2002 Canadian science fiction horror film directed by Andrzej Sekuła, written by Sean Hood, and produced by Ernie Barbarash, Peter Block, and Suzanne Colvin. It is the second installment in the Cube film series and a sequel to Cube (1997).
Released in 2002, Hypercube replaces the colored industrial-style rooms of the first film with high-tech, brightly lit chambers. Instead of industrial traps such as flamethrowers and extending spikes, the rooms have "evolved" to control illusions, time, space, and reality.
The film's critical reception was mixed, with reviewers panning the sequel's poorly produced CGI, writing, and production, but praising its evolution from the first film, its acting, and its suspense.
Plot
A woman named Becky wakes up in the Cube. She enters another room. The room enters a state of reversed gravity and it is implied that she is killed.
Seven captives find themselves trapped in cubes. They come across Colonel Thomas Maguire, who informs the group that they must solve a code in order to escape.
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