This turns out to be rather important to the closing explanation of what the hell's actually been going ON in this film that's got a plot almost as weird as the setting. There are also bizarre quantum effects, which combine with the temporal and spatial effects mean that once someone goes IN, they will never stop coming OUT, with every copy having had a different set of experiences inside. It's about as comprehensible as it sounds. The matrix of cubes is, in this movie, a tesseract, which is made by extending a cube along a fourth spatial dimension.
Bizarrchitecture: This film takes the concept to a whole new level, adding strange gravitational and time effects, as well as much more. Bilingual Bonus: The true identity of the hacker "Alex Trusk" is hinted at for anyone familiar with how Slavic diminutive names work, since Alex is actually Sasha, a female character whose name is the diminutive form of Alexander/Alexandra. CUBE2 HYPERCUBE MOVIE
Big Brother Is Watching: Unlike the previous movie which actively downplayed the trope, here it's strongly implied that a military-megacorporate conspiracy is behind things, foreshadowed by the shots of the CCTV cameras watching the future cube inhabitants in the How We Got Here flashback. Big Brother Is Employing You: As in the first movie, people who helped design the hypercube have ended up being used as Unwitting Test Subjects. And they kill Kate, their own employee, probably because she knew too much or because it was a suicide mission from the start. The Bad Guy Wins: The overseers of the Hypercube kill everyone they set out to get rid of by throwing them into the highly dangerous environment, and retrieve Alex Trusk's device. Audible Sharpness: The Tesseract trap (basically a flying, razor-sharp geometric object) makes incredible noise as it flies around and reforms itself. 
Ascetic Aesthetic: In contrast to the first Cube, this cube has a user-friendly look, with sleek white surfaces and touch-to-open panels.
It's the time period in minutes until the hypercube collapses in on itself and the dimensional portal from the physical world opens.
Arc Number: The number 60659, which the characters encounter written on one of the walls and suspect may be a clue to finding their way out of the death maze. Ax-Crazy: Simon, the detective with a knife, becomes increasingly unhinged until he just starts hunting down people across alternate universes so he can eat their flesh and drink their blood to survive. At the same time he berates the others for not believing in his conspiracy theories, and is convinced that the cube is operated by a mysterious superhacker called Alex Trusk. Arbitrary Skepticism: Max calls the rest of the group crazy for even considering that space and time could be distorted in the cube (despite repeatedly witnessing things that are physically impossible, such as the rooms instantaneously moving around) and argues that there has to be a logical explanation, such as an optical illusion. Exploited by one character who uses them as a human food source. The characters don't realize this until they start running into duplicates of themselves and each other. Alternate Universe: The hypercube transects parallel universes. Everyone (especially Simon) is severely freaked out by this. She's then stabbed In the Back by Simon who warns the others not to trust her just before a transparent piledriver knocks his head off. Almost Dead Guy: Mrs Pasley opens a door and sees herself!. 
The actual warped geometry shows up only a few times due to the special effects required being rather expensive the rest of the time it's showcased indirectly (e.g.
Alien Geometries: A rare portrayal of this trope being employed in a visual medium. Advancing Wall of Doom: One that causes Rapid Aging, and another that fills the room with transparent piledrivers that can take your head off.
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