Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
forceuserjames
I've seen some crap-poor movies in my time on this earth, but sweet lord did this movie sucks! Apparently, the antagonist is Two-faces Russian son, who found a cave, got trapped in it, yet seems to be able to teleport throughout the cave (e.x. he goes back up to the top of the cave, seals them in, then somehow makes it back down into the cave. Why the eff did he not just leave years ago?) He is also either bullet- proof, or has mutant-like healing powers. I would guess the latter, since he can also phase through walls. Did I mention that all this "brutal" killing is just to get a piece a dat? Oh, and somehow (also not explained) a freaking airplane manages to get inside of this cave. If you want to waste an hour and 20 some odd minutes of your life, go watch a Godzilla film. Yes they're cheesy as heck, but at least they're endearing and re- watchable. Problems: Camera - Shaky cams have been done well before (Blair Witch, Cloverfield) and they've been done poorly (Monster) but throw in almost complete darkness and the almost dizzying camera becomes a confusing pain in the bum. Throw in the sequences of "shiz mah batteriez r dead" and everyone's batteries are out at the same time and you get squelchy invisible deaths (that ironically enough, one of them looks exactly the same as another shaky-cam movie, REC.) Story - None. The "backstory" is just confusing, and comes up at awkward times. The movie plot itself is this formula; Run -> Stop -> Freak -> Someone yells "calm down!" -> Batteries die -> person dies -> repeat. for the whole. movie.Positives: scenes? Belay that. Neither one made any dang sense.I'm going to go off somewhere and try to pretend I didn't just watch this p.o.s
L
A group of cocky Americans and their Kazakh guides go into a "cursed" cave. What follows appears to have been filmed with Photobooth on someone's Macbook with the "glow" effect turned all the way up. We're set up for something supernatural--the creature that stalks and kills most of the party seems to be capable of causing magnetic disturbances and is apparently impervious to bullets--but I guess they didn't have the budget for that. Instead we get a tacked-on ending about the disfigured survivor of a plane crash (who managed to singlehandedly bring the entire wing of a plane through the narrow tunnels of a cave at age 12...yeah, don't ask) and the whole thing ends with some freaky caveman rape.Seriously the worst movie ever. The best part about it was getting to write this review as revenge for the time taken out of my life to see it.
Kimberly Shackcloth
This movie started off boring and lost my interest before people even started getting killed off. At some point some one died and I started watching it again only to become bored once more. Also in this movie we see some truly god awful camera work, characters randomly pulling out guns from no where when they are on a caving expedition and we later find out the baddie is just one normal cave dwelling man who is somehow able to have perfect dark vision, rip people to pieces either with his bare hands or his spears(first how does he manage that, and second how did he even craft them?) and he also has the ability to move perfectly silently through waist high water. The movies only way to try and make the bad guy scary is by never showing you him until the very end and flashing random lights on and off, killing anyone who suffers epilepsy (also I don't know how they made it look so much like a disco with supposedly only three torches/ flashlights) In the end I guess the film maker realised just how much hate mail they would soon be getting and in an attempt to try and redeem themselves they shot a final scene where we get a half baked description of the creatures origins and a random cave man rape scene where for no reason at all we get more flashing lights that gave our poor camera man a seizure thus providing yet more terrible camera work.I would say the best part of this movie was when the cave man had his way with a young girl no one cares about and wishes died off earlier in the film (considering this scene was terrible it speaks volumes about the rest of the movie). This was the best scene though mostly because the credits follow a few seconds afterwards.
rixrex
Good thing I only paid $1 for this at the Big Lots! What a rotten example of a cave movie, or perhaps it could be said, a good example of how to NOT do a cave movie.The comment from the spelunker notwithstanding, the fact is that a MOVIE about a CAVE has to have more than the glare of lamps in our face to be appreciated. There has to be a minimal amount of back-lighting in order for us to see the activity. Not only did this trash have no back-lighting at all, it barely had any lighting upon the subjects and too often they were shot in close-up even during action scenes, leaving me to speculate as to what actually happened.While this technique is useful in keeping the hideous beast hidden from view, to use it for nearly all scenes is just ridiculous. Those who wish to see a cave as it would actually appear to an explorer, you only need to go into one yourselves. That's reality, but this was supposed to be a movie that could be watched and understood. It wasn't.Do yourself a favor and stick to The Cave and Descent for some good underground thrills.
