Reviewed by Crazy Ralph) - The first Cube was a intense and gritty flick if you really stop to think about it. It followed several random people who wake up in a mysterious Cube that is rigged with booby traps if your not careful enough. Eventually it takes a mental toll on some of the people trapped inside and only one survives.

The sequel, Cube 2: Hypercube, lost what the first one had, but I still enjoyed it. it tried to be a much bigger sequel to the first film, something that is very common with sequels, but it lost the intensity of the first for more of a science fiction twist and it became not as entertaining.

Cube: Zero is a "so called" prequel to the first film, and it could have worked as one too. In this review I cannot tell you certain characters names or actors because I only watched it once.

The story for Zero is that a bunch of people once again wake in a cube that is booby trapped, but this time they are viewed by two people, Eric Wynn and Dobbs. Wynn is curious about what they are doing and why they are doing it, raising conspiracy theorys against his friends wish. His friend, although poorly acted and written comes across as the wise one, knowing what will happen if they question athourity, but Wynn refuses to let it go as he seems to fall for a woman trapped inside named Rains. After discovering the truth about the absence of a collegue and raising his own judgement about what happens when someone finds a way out, Wynn decides to go inside the Cube himself in attempt to rescue the girl and any other survivors. but things change when his superiors discover his actions.

The story works very well as a follow up to Cube,almost keeping it the same feel, but it lacks the intensity as the sequel did. I was hoping that, since this one was promoted as a prequel,this one would focus on one of the two characters from the first, Worth and Kazan. The ending makes it seem like this movie could have been about the mentally challenged Kazan. Wynn is eventually caught and given a brain transplant that makes him Atistic in the same exact way that Kazan was in the original flick, which would have worked if it was the same character and actor, but instead it creates an all too simular parrellel within the characters in this series.

Over all, it was far better then the sequel "Cube 2: Hypercube" but not quite as good as "Cube". It falls in between, highly enjoyable flick though.