Sorry, but this simply was not THAT deep a movie. A few stated facts that seem to elude far too many people here include the fact that Sasha was not "placed" in the hypercube, she "fled" into the hypercube. What she has is what she had when she entered. It is not out of the question for a blind person to have a watch, nor to be a programmer. I personally know several who even engage in online real-time chat just fine. As for climbing ladders, that too is not difficult to do blindly. Close your eyes and try it. Given the uniformity of the rooms, it stands to reason that she'd get far better at all aspects of moving around the rooms. The various obstacles are the only impedance she'd face.
Sasha very likely did NOT place other people inside to "slow down" her pursuer. She was apparently unaware that anyone would or had followed her anyway. Many of the other individuals had items intentionally removed or left on their persons for apparently non-random reasons. She not only states that she knew people were being inserted, but that she intended to blow the whistle on it! The necklace with the "device" seems to be media storage, as indicated by the General at the end of the movie who makes reference to "... and see if anything recorded on it."
Regarding another of the OP's comments, the ending scene does not necessarily have to be the entrance, though it does bring up another potential flaw. IZON apparently knew where the exit was, and was waiting for Kate. This nearly implies that only one exit exists, or at least that all possible exits are known. Granted Sasha may have assumed no one would follow (obviously a foolish thought), but surely she'd have known that eventual escape would find IZON waiting for her. No brilliant hacker would make such a blunder. Self-sacrifice is also unlikely given her apparent moral stance, and the likelihood that the device is media that would expose the company's activities. She doesn't simply need to keep it from IZON, but to get it into the open. And to top things off, she would have known that alternate versions of herself would exist within the hypercube, making retrieval all the more easy for anyone sent in after her.
Some other "problems" with the physics of the movie bothered me, particularly the variable time shifts. It seems apparent and obvious that everyone entered at one time, or rather that the 4th dimension began oscillating at one time. If someone with a watch entered a variable timespeed room (as Max calls them), their watch would obviously speed up or slow down as well. If they then returned to the original room, their watch would now be out of sync with anyone who remained in the other room, yet every watch in the movie seemed to remain in sync. Also, many rooms had the characters in obvious advanced stages of decay that would take months. How do these rooms exist for months when the hypercube has such a short expiration? Sasha even verified that the 4th dimension was collapsing into one. If the expiration were deterministic, it should stand to reason that all the dimensions would have to be unified at the same time in each. Unification at the same time on different dates would not work either for the watch reason.
Another problem with the variable time speed room is the transition from one to another. Having Julia's voice in a higher pitch was indeed comical, and almost accurate. Such a Doppler effect would indeed increase the pitch of her voice, but also the volume. Her voice as it arrived in the slower room should have been unbearably loud. I guess that's what happens with ridiculous sci-fi concepts.
At the end, the General commends Kate, "So, figured it out." She replies, "Yes sir... no time to spare." This, and the way in which Kate seems to have "figured it out" implies that exit is only possible at that precise moment. No time to spare one way OR the other, can't be too early or too late. So the solution can NEVER have "time to spare", right? I don't know if her comment is supposed to be black humor or just silly.
Even given the plot similarities with Cube, I watched this as a completely separate film. Certainly not as good as Cube, but it was a decent standalone story. It lacked depth though. You can't identify or empathize with any of these characters. You can't really try to "solve the riddle" along with them. Their motivations were unclear and not worth determining. Their dialog was cheesy. Plot devices dead-ended for no reason. It's mildly entertaining, but not worth trying to "understand" it.
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