This film begins in much the same way as its predecessor with a person-in this case a young woman named "Becky Young" (Greer Kent)--waking up in a strange room with an exit hatch on all four walls, along with one on the floor and one on the ceiling. After choosing to go through one of the exists leading into a similar room, she enters a room in which gravity is reversed and falls upward before disappearing from sight. The scene then shifts to several different people finding themselves in a similar room with exists on all sides. Eventually, they all meet up in one particular room where they compare notes about who they are and how they ended up in this particular situation. It's then that they discover that all of them have had a connection to a corporate entity known as Izon which was created by a computer genius named Alex Trusk who is rumored to be quite sociopathic. Regardless, having now grasped the fact that they are trapped inside a tesseract, one particular man named "Simon Grady" (Geraint Wyn Davies) takes charge and the group follow him from one room another in which they soon encounter deadly scenarios resulting from the distortion of both time and matter. In one specific incident, upon opening the hatch into one particular room, an exact replica of Simon is seen stabbing a female member of the group named "Mrs. Paley" (Barbara Gordon) before being decapitated himself. Needless to say, this disturbs everyone in the group--especially Simon--who just happens to be the only person armed with a large knife. To that effect, as Simon becomes more and more agitated, the other members become even more wary of him. Meanwhile, the tesseract is becoming even more deadly as well. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that, even though this film clearly benefited from an imaginative plot, there were some cases where the acting was quite sufficient to really capitalize on it. To be sure, I thought that Kari Matchett (as the psychologist "Kate Fillmore"), Neil Crone ("Jerry Whitehall") and the aforementioned Geraint Wyn Davies performed well enough. However, some of the others weren't nearly as convincing. Be that as it may, even though this film was still fairly entertaining, I don't consider it to be quite as good as its predecessor and I have rated it accordingly.
Review of Cube²: Hypercube
