first film that the first film is better than the characterization of the characters and explores the issue of social class through the identity metaphor of different people, each of whom has a significant social identity. Decryption is only secondary, the emphasis is on the mind. The first film honestly told a story about the changes in mental state and behavior of everyone in the face of unknown puzzles at a low cost and without showing off (and unable to) show off their skills. Although it did not answer the audience's confusion in the end, where did the cube come from? What is the purpose? But at least it's a discussion of life.
This one obviously got a lot of investment, so I began to try to disguise myself with high-tech and some special effects. Of course, the effect seems to be good, and I won a special effect award-, but from the character design to the plot, it is almost completely copied. one. First concealing his connection to the cube, then slowly confessing, and finally falling in love and killing each other. Even in order to show off his skills and put on a sci-fi coat, he lost the original discussion of human nature in the first film. The result, as you can imagine, was just a bad movie.
After watching the whole film, I can't have any sense of identity with everyone. Because they were discussing what a hypercube was from start to finish, their personal secrets were reluctantly revealed, and the characters didn't play at all. For example, I always thought that the old lady with dementia would magnify the trick to solve some ultimate problem, but she didn't wake up for a moment until she died, and she didn't know what to do with it. The private detective ends up inexplicably turning into a murderer. Jerry gleefully ranted about a bunch of 4D theory and then got killed three or four times for no apparent reason. Max and the female lawyer Soy Sauce felt invisible all the time, and finally hooked up and turned into mummified corpses. Although Sasha finally revealed her true identity, from beginning to end she did not have any meaningful lines except "what did you see" and "what happened over there". Kate is the only character with a bit of personality, at least she has the spirit of not giving up, but in the end she looks like an undercover agent, and then she is killed inexplicably, which is incomprehensible. In general, I don't feel the anxiety of watching a normal thriller for the characters at all, but I feel that it doesn't matter if you can't escape because it's too boring.
One of the big bugs in the film is that the fourth dimension is not explained from beginning to end. Jerry denies Max's fourth-dimensional time theory when explaining the four-dimensional cube, and Sasha says Max is right, that is, he acknowledges Max's theory of time. Combined with what Max says about game design, the fourth dimension of time seems to be correct. But the "four-dimensional cube" that deformed and killed Jerry obviously had nothing to do with time.
If the so-called fourth dimension is really time, then why did Jerry deliberately deny Max? Moreover, the parallel universe proposed by Jerry is based on his theory that "the fourth dimension is not time", and he does not hesitate to involve quantum mechanics. But in fact, the basis of the multiverse theory of quantum mechanics is that time is the fourth dimension. This kind of low-level mistake of smashing the stone is really unbearable.
It seems that the screenwriter wants to rack his brains to come up with a novel fourth-dimensional theory, but unfortunately he can't get around the parallel universe, and the result is still stuck in time.
As for the ending, where the Doctor is killed inexplicably, and the cube is depicted as the arms dealer's new weapon, it's too old-fashioned. The Soy Sauce Man also babbled about the "second stage", as if there were really before and after episodes. It was clear that the screenwriter couldn't make it up, so he started to cheat.
ps The popular movie review actually mentioned the Metatron cube. This thing is basically a religious product, isn't it? The four elements of water, air, fire, and earth together with ether form the world, which is like that of ancient Greece. This can also be turned out, which is really unbearable to look at.
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