BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Leofwine_draca Richard Pepin, a man well known in B-movie circles for his role as producer and director in the genre since the early 1980s, directs this Sci-Fi Channel nonsense about a group of robbers who enter a long abandoned mine in search of a cave filled with valuable emeralds. Along they way they rope in an innocent explorer and his family to act as their guide and inevitably all hell breaks loose.CAVED IN comes across as a cheap and rubbishy variation on the likes of THE CAVE, SANCTUM, and THE DESCENT, although it isn't as effective as any of those movies. The reason is that there are just too many preposterous elements in the story for it to either make sense or feel remotely believable.The main draw in this movie are the monsters, some nasty giant beetles which are animated via some not-bad CGI (for the most part). So far so straightforward, but then the writers had to add in some STAR WARS style laser weaponry which just comes across as silly. They should have instead focused more on making the menace more realistic instead of going down the sci-fi route.There's some rubbery gore on display here, but also a lot of bad acting. The lead is played by Christopher Atkins, who made his debut in THE BLUE LAGOON all those years back, but he's pretty wooden these days. Colm Meaney is somehow along for the ride, but the worst of the bunch is the whiny, irritating Chelan Simmons, whose character automatically drags the enjoyment factor down a notch. A shame as at the outset this has definite potential to be something interesting.

MartianOctocretr5 Plenty of action for fans of these big mutated bug creature movies. Since the focus is just to showcase the inflated insects chasing and feeding on screaming extras, the feeble plot full of familiar devices really doesn't hurt. It's low budget stuff all the way, but fun.Many Sci-Fi channel flicks like to mix some "bad victims who deserve to die in a poetic justice way and you can't wait until they get it" with some "good innocent victims in the wrong place at the wrong time who ought to live but some of them don't" types. This routine of course insures plenty of blood, and so it is this time: crooks want to get at some valuable jewels or something underground in a mine somewhere, and trick a guy into leading them to it. Said guy has teen daughters, etc. Guess what? You'll never guess! Giant bugs are there, too! The bugs are cheaply rendered, the CGI animation look like somebody glued a magazine photo of a bug on your TV screen, and slid it around with a pencil. Familiar territory, and most of the actors failed Drama 1A. But it still can entertain if you take it for what it is, campy fast food b-budget sci-fi/horror.

siderite I see the beginning of a beautiful friendship: sci-fi recipe films and cheap Romanian actors and studios. I actually watched this to see what Romanian actors would do and, unfortunately, they all did horribly. I can't really say that Monica Barladeanu played badly, given that the scenes with her were either she looking beautiful, looking interested and nodding to what a guy is saying, either screaming. Marius Chivu wasn't completely awful either. Colm Meaney was his usual self, demoted from starship engineer to silly bad guy, while everybody else just played stupid, unrealistic roles and stinking at it.OK, the plot: giant bugs live underground, but they only get out when Americans come near the cave. It's a natural mutation that occurred somewhere in ancient Egypt, so maybe they are attracted to Jews, not Americans. Anyway, these smart bugs realized that living individually, having a normal size and eating dung is not a good way of life, therefore they elected a queen, covered her in expensive jewelry and proceeded on obeying her every command. Come on! There is no plot! Giant bugs, stupid weapons, women screaming, some entrails and blood, bugs stick together for the explosive finale, the end.Conclusion: not even cult status bad. It's a mediocre type of film, the kind of movie where all extras are Romanian, but have German or French names for whatever reason. Stay away from it.

Craig _San I saw this movie and while it wasn't really too bad for this genre, I had problems believing a few things:1: The main character is a very good caving expert but they go into this very "perilous" caved in mine with out basic safety gear like helmets. 2: After 58 years, the power is still on in the mine and the lights still work. This was lucky because nobody seemed to be carrying any torches or lights. 3: After 58 years, this mine, beside a lake, has no water in it. 4: The second thing that they all do, after turning on the lights, is to jump on this rickety old wooden elevator to descend 2000 feet. This seems foolish to me especially for some caving "expert". 5: The two-way radios do not look like low frequency cave radios and their reception seems really really good after going through 2000 feet of rock? 6: Can you really get these rocket-propelled anchors that you can shoot into rock that will then hold firm enough to swing from? If so, shouldn't you test them before using them to swing across an abyss? 7: Why does a "caver" need a rocket-propelled emergency beacon? 8: The main character carried a very small back-pack. It seemed barely big enough for the rocket-propelled anchor with about 15 feet of rope, rocket-propelled emergency beacon and explosives that he took. I am not an expert but I would have taken more caving equipment like torches, ropes, helmets, slings, harness. 9: Why do the "laser rifles" need to be cocked (but not reloaded) every now and then? Where does the rock go when it is disintegrated? 10: I didn't know that emeralds actually generated their own light. But they looked pretty. 11: I saw baby monster beetles coming out of a dead mans mouth. If the young are only 2 inches long, then why are the eggs nearly a foot long? 12: Why kill the old man if that meant that they would only be able to make one trip down the mine to get emeralds? Why not leave him alive and sneak down as many times as they wanted and get as many emeralds as they wanted? Why are the bad guys so dumb? 13: Why kill Colm Meanie before he has helped carry emeralds to the surface? 14: Who keeps a loaded shotgun hanging on their living room wall?In all sincerity, I really like finding a movie with this many gaffs.