If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

If "Cube Zero" was an attempt to right the ship after the mistake known as "Cube2: Hypercube" then it was a failed attempt. They did nothing to restore credibility or goodness back to the franchise. The acting was just as poor if not poorer and there was nothing new except more scenes outside of the cube.If I can comment on the acting for a bit because I feel I must. Now I believe that the pitiful acting is on purpose. For the actors to deliver their lines like they are doing voice overs for kung fu movies or doing voice overs for chipmunks just doesn't make sense. Their words were abrupt and choppy like they had to suddenly stop talking or they'd run out of breath. Nothing about their acting was good--the delivery of the lines, their facial expressions and their expressions of different emotions. Even if the plot was good they would have sank it.Back to the story. Again, like "Hypercube", they fed us a little more information about the cube's purpose and who may be behind it. This is supposed to be a prequel so the cube you know in "Cube" is pretty much the cube you see here. Still, after having watched all three parts to this series I don't understand the significance of the cube participants.It tries and fails to explain "Cube": the reason for its existence, who's behind it and why we know so little behind the characters. I don't know if it's fair to say they tried to explain because they really didn't. They just added more confusion and more mystery to a mysterious thing. This installment from the Cube trilogy is less intelligent, less creative and filled with more deus ex machinas (plot devices whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object). "Cube Zero" at least forecast it's ability to be entertaining: zero.

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.

Surprisingly Cube Zero does not center mainly around the people trapped in the cube. Of course there are still people who wake up inside, get to know each other and then either die horribly in one of the gruesome traps or get killed by one of their own turned psychopath. It wouldn't be a Cube film without this. However Cube Zero focuses on what happens outside the Cube. We get to see a glimpse of who/what is behind the growing mystery, formed by the earlier films, that is the cube(s). However, and this is not necessarily a bad thing, Cube Zero raises about as many questions as it answers. I will not give away anything here though, you will just have to watch it and see for yourself.The plot has a lot of twists and turns along the way, including a big one that ties in very nicely to the first film. The film certainly has better writing than its predecessor Hypercube (2002) and may even surpass the original. Some of the characters are still fairly shallow, especially the people inside the cube, but otherwise the writing is inventive and a lot less cheesy than in the other two films.The acting is also quite good. Despite having unknown actors the characters are portrayed believably and are fun to watch. The direction is well paced, and while Cube Zero is not the tensest of the three, it still keeps you wanting to watch by asking another question every time it answers one.Cube Zero definitely had a lower budget and maybe this isn't a bad thing. It created the need for a strong script and after all this is what these films depend on. It makes you think, it keeps you wandering what is going on afterwords and this makes it a good film. I can definitely recommend it.

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...