Overview
In Cube, a handful of people wake up in a room with six doors, one on each wall plus one on the ceiling and one on the floor. They start exploring and pick up people along the way. They only have scatterings of memory from "their previous" life and don't know how they ended up in there. When moving from cube to cube they try to unravel the mystery while finding the way out and avoiding the traps. The movie is unique because there is no explanation given, and no distinct enemy. It is an exploration of human behavior and how people react to each other in dire situations. As the story unfolds, we find that most of the characters are tied to the cube in some manner, which makes things even more intriguing. Can they work together to figure out the puzzle of the cube? Yes, they figure it out, but by the end only one prisoner is remaining. The traps finish some while others are done-in by the group fighting. We never find out what is beyond the cube, as the movie ends as the last survivor traverses the exit path. Next comes Cube 2: Hypercube. It is much the same plot as the first, except now they are in a high tech structure. Instead of the 'Cutting Wires' and poison gas of the first movie, they are in one with alternate realities, weird 'wavering' walls, and blobs of [something]. Once again, the inhabitants are all tied to the cube somehow. At the end we get a glimpse of the outside world. It appears to be some military installation, and they are able to retrieve a "recording" of something. We never find out more about this recording, though. Phase 2 of the cube project is complete.
Cube Zero is a prequel. This is unique because it concentrates not on the cube prisoners, but the 'button pushing' prison-guards. I found Cube 0 to be intriguing, as the guards argue about the ethics of their job. Instructions are given to them via cards that come down an elevator. At the end we are told this is all an experiment, both on the prison guards and the prisoners. It seems to be a study of human behavior. The end of Cube 0 runs right into the beginning of Cube, which ties the two movies together nicely.
Watch it Again
I'd definitely pick up a fourth movie, but I don't know if I'd sit through the 'trilogy' again. I might watch the DVD commentary on Cube 0 in hopes that they offer some more explanation behind the cube lore. I want to know more about what the "cubes" are and why they exist and who are the people inside and why are they put inside. And who is really in control of the whole cube project?
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