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From the SciFi Website: In 1998, the internationally award-winning Cube became an instant suspense classic. It established filmmaker Vincenzo Natali as a master of compact, imaginative thrillers, and Cube remains one of the most talked-about SF allegories ever.
There, six strangers found themselves inexplicably trapped within a maze of interconnected rooms many laden with lethal traps. Because these rooms, thousands of them, would periodically shift and move like puzzle pieces, survival became as much a matter of mathematics as of guts.
And that at least gave the doomed and the damned a fighting chance. In the next-generation maze of Cube 2: Hypercube, there may only be the illusion of a chance at escape.
Here, eight strangers awaken not in a cube of conventional, three-dimensional reality, but in a tesseract, or "hypercube." The term, out of higher mathematics, describes the theoretical construct of "the four-dimensional analog of a cube." While the fourth dimension beyond length, width and depth is generally considered to be time, a hypercube posits a fourth spatial dimension.
I don't often use other's synopsis, prefering to put things in my own words. But I was at a loss to describe this telepicture in my own words. I can tell you this. The ending ticked me off to no end. I am reminded of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find You invest so much in the characters, you hate to see them go. And yet, that is precisely the reason the story is so good. BEcause of that investment, you're supposed to be angered.
I have to question, when is television going to go all our and reduce the commercials? I think this telefilm would have been better if broken up into 3 or 4 acts. Well, actually, honestly, it would have been better with no comercials. There's a definate tension that builds throughout the story. Is anyone going to get out? if so, what will happen if they do?
I can't tell you, but I can say I doubt you'll be satisfied. I should say that I haven't seen the first film, so there may be some information or insights that would further explain the ending of Cube 2: Hypercube. As it is, you will either love or hate this telefilm. See it on my recommendation and decide for yourself.
