follow the release of cube 2 represent hypercube ( 2003 ) and and play off the alleged success of the original cube ( 1998 ) and director ernie barbarash take the liberty of bring u the third installment in the trilogy and the prequel cube zero . deep in the bowel of a giant and faceless institution and time and place unknown and two low ranking operator and wynn ( zachary bennett ) and dodd ( david huband ) sit and observe on monitor the behavior of people that have be place in a giant network of cubic chamber and some of which be rig with death trap . tell that the people they be observe be convict felon who choose this horrific and deadly ordeal over a lethal injection and these observer have have no problem with their job until wynn and a mathematical genius and discovers that one of the prisoner and a woman name cassandra ( stephanie moore ) never agree to be put inside the cube . suddenly it realize that perhaps their job be not what they seem and and that they may be part of something deeply sick and twisted . for people that have see and enjoy the original cube and this prequel will probably not be to your liking . it not that the story do not have potential while it simply that the first cube film never need to be expand on . stand alone and it be a neat little psychological thriller with very interesting concept and a certainty about it own message . it be also nicely self contain . the problem with cube zero be that it destroy some of the mystique of the original and attempt to answer question with more question but only really result in make a mess of what never need fixing . what this new film have to offer and which be question about the psychological nature of authoritarianism and the banality of evil and certainly be good question to be raise and but probably should have be do so on their own merit and rather than a a continuation of a film that have no such aspiration . have say this and the other trait of the film and such a act and direction and writing and be not awful . there be a bleak and dark look to the film akin to such film noir a the matrix and dark city and and they have certainly manage to recapture the claustrophobic feeling of the first cube . unfortunately for barbarash and these be not enough positive quality to save it .