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The center of nagging fascination with the Cube movies is wondering what’s behind them. Who's doing this to all these people and why? Well, there’s obviously only so long you can keep viewers on the hook without giving them some more clues before they get tired of the game, so Cube Zero — a prequel to the original Cube, while still an advancement of the theme — lets us see a bit more of the puzzle, and holds interest for that reason alone. Zachary Bennett’s character, the conflicted torture engineer, gives the story an added dimension, though his true status is easy to figure out. The requisite gross-out traps are back again, and the cast ably goes through the paces of unraveling various brain teasers and dramatic twists. Only Michael Riley as the upper echelon keeper, Jax, seems to be on another level — as if he just dropped in from an old Batman episode.

 -- Brian Thomas