I recently saw this movie for two reasons. The first is that the first Cube was a really cool movie that I like a lot. The second is that I'd recently become obsessed with understanding the concept of a hypercube, or four-dimensional cube.

The movie, on the whole, was pretty decent. It wasn't as good as the original, but then, what is. On the other hand, it did shed light on some of the themes of the original (i.e. who would build such a thing and why?), and it helped me to understand this abstract fourth-dimension.

The movie follows the same basic formula as the original. There's a bunch of people trapped in a death cube. The original had rules based on Cartesian coordinates that could be solved with incredibly complicated math. The second has no such rules. Being a 4-D cube, it defies the normal laws of physics. There are variable speed rooms, rooms crossing through each other and folding into each other, and rooms with alternate versions of the characters. The goal, of course, is to survive the cube and each other.

Like I said the movie was pretty decent, but ultimately, it was just a remake of the original with a bigger budget. I'd still buy it, though.