Vastly over-rated **Spoilers**

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2005)

I loved Dog Soldiers and was keen to see this new outing from its director. What a disappointment!
Girls trapped in a pothole system with not one mobile phone between them...come on now, this is 2005. Then there are the unoriginal monsters stolen from 'Creep' who live underground and are blind, but we're expected to believe they can't smell a woman or feel her even when they've got a hand on her face. So how do they catch all the humans and animals whose bones litter the cave floor if they can't see, smell or feel?
And where does all the light come from in these caves we are told beforehand are pitch black? Not from the light sticks and torches of the actors, that's for sure.
Yes, it's slick, stylish, and gruesome enough to please those who get a kick out of a thumbs-in-the-eyeballs style of violence, but unlike Dog Soldiers, which was a fresh take on an old story, this is a hackneyed and derivative tale that frankly bored me well before the end: an end which is a total cliché and an obvious teaser for a pointless sequel.