Cube Zero (2004)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The first movie "Cube" did not explain at all the strange events happening. As if movie makers didn't want you even to ask the questions, and just enjoy the thrill of watching the strange events. The second movie "hyper-cube" gave a hint that someone, after all, was in control. In this prequel "Cube 0" one layer of outside, controlling-agency is shown. The higher layer of control (up above) is not disclosed even now as if they have saved it for yet another Cube movie. This movie gives you the experience of thrill. There is the fear of the unknown, disgust of gore, a feeling of helplessness, cold objectivity of the authority, and empathy among the co-sufferers too.

I guess I preferred it when we didn't know who had built the cube or why they built it and that you never actually saw what was going on outside. However as another has suggested, even though we learn a bit more about what is going on, we are still left with a lot of unanswered questions. However, I guess the problem with sequels, as they all turn out to be, is that they can never capture the essence of the original.According to this film, if you wish to take this film as being connected to the original and not some poor attempt at trying to cash in on the success of the original, is that the cube is a government prison facility where people 'sign' consent forms so that they have the opportunity for freedom, as long as they can solve the puzzle and escape. The puzzle, in a sense, is actually designed to test weapons, though this doesn't really sit well with the original concept.I guess I liked the original concept better, particularly since in the original the characters' memories were not wiped, despite not knowing why they were there. The suggestion is that they were criminals, however one does wonder whether those in the original were actually criminals because in reality only one of them was actually a criminal. The others seemed to simply be there as a part of the puzzle, though we do wonder a bit about Quentin, due to his anger.I also liked the concept in the original about how they said that the facility may have at one stage had a purpose, but with the fluid nature of bureaucracy, the original purpose simply got lost in the files of paperwork and that the facility was simply completed because they had started it and as such they had to finish it, and once it was finished, they had to put people in there because, well, it had to be used. This, to me, seems to reflect much more on the absurdity of the modern industrial complex than what we have in this film, where the philosophical disappears to simply try to create a thriller that falls flat on its face.Further, with the suggestion that each of the characters in the original have the names of famous prisons also adds to the strange concepts that arise there, where as here, the further we move away from the brilliance of the original towards what is in effect an attempt to cash in on a popular concept, the nature of the names and of the characters cease to be of importance and simply come out as more faceless entities that seem to populate our Hollywood movies.

Uh....Why make this movie? the guy with the Eye.....OK, THE EYE issue...wtf?? Why do we have a "CHARACTER" actor in this film? Why do we have a sincerely...bizarre laughable, corn ball acted persona??? why is this.....actor hired for this film, his portrayal was goofy, not menacing, not scary, just corn ball strange.WTF??? Btw: the majority of this film was cheap and cheesy THE ONLY good portion was the guy turning into the autistic character seen in the first cube concept in the 90's...

Cube Zero (2004)This movie was a much better sequel then Cube 2, Which was just a waste of time.This had a great opening scenes, very gory start to this movie, which I really liked.The plot was little different of last 2, this times we see what going on in The Cube and also going on outside of the Cube.This was better then Cube 2 but no where near as good as the first movie, The deaths scene in this movie was really nice and gory at times and fun to watch.And I at the end that when I really understood why this was Called Cube Zero and liked how it ended.The acting was really good from the whole cast,6 out of 10