There are also, at least at the beginning, no traps. The hatches on all 6 sides work similarly to the first film, but automatically, by touch. The design of the cube is like a less interesting version of the first film: the rooms are white and pretty bland. A new twist comes in the person of a sexy lawyer (in red party dress!) and a blind girl. The stereotypes are there again: there is - like in the first film, an agressive bully type, a caring, sympathetic blonde, a young carefree-type, an older sure-of-himself-type, a mentally challenged (here confused) type etc. The film then follows the different characters waking up in different rooms. Ok, ok, she appears again later.in a really shocking "twist" scene. Not spectacularly diced and killed like the poor guy in "cube" but simply.gone. The first scene is actually a variation of the first film, a girl wakes up (the girl from the flashback scene), wanders around a little, she opens a hatch, and wham.she's gone. We now actually see the people in the moments before they are abducted. Sekula tries here, and also later in the film - to make "hypercube" different by showing snippets of the "life before the cube", which is at first fascinating, but takes away the allegorical dimension of the first film. We also see some kind of flashback, a young woman working at a computer, then turning around.blackness. The sound design is really fantastic, by the way!). There is also some high-tech computer generated graphics mumbo jumbo and some effective and haunting music (phased and echoed - which makes sense after seeing the film. First of all we see the bodies of the people later to be trapped in the cube - they are on stretchers, and wrapped up in plastic bags. "Hypercube" starts out very differently from the first film. I will try to describe the film without giving away too much. It says a lot that the original director of "Cube" was not involved in this project - instead we have Andrzej Sekula, apparently also a newcomer. Like "Blair Witch 2" "Hypercube" is not really bad - in fact there are many good ideas in it, there is excitement, the timing is is just not as good as "Cube", which is, for a sequel, simply not good enough. And like "Blair Witch 2" "Hypercube" really tries to be different.and fails to impress in the end. Like "Blair Witch", the original "Cube" is in itself a pretty perfect film which doesn't really scream for a sequel. About the film.well, I try to be short, it is really late right now (but I wanted to be first.). The copy we saw just now seemed to be the final version - sound, picture and editing were pristine - but doubts remain: for example the program book of the festival shows a picture of a character clearly taken from the film.and he doesn't appear in it! Hm, not the first time they cut somebody out AFTER releasing the pictures. At least that was what we were told by the organizers - apparently the copy was flewn over from Toronto fresh from the printers (and there were 2 failed attempts to do so - it seems the film was not ready the first time, the second time they sent the wrong film - this is why the originally announced premiere 4 days ago didn't happen). Just a few minutes ago I and some 200 fellow geeks were the very first people seeing an official copy of "Hypercube", the sequel to "Cube", one of my most loved films (the date of today's premiere was 7/31/0:30 a.m.). My name is Moritz Eggert (no need for a pseudonym here), and I live in Munich, Germany, home of the original Fantasy Film Fest.
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