Good B-movie, but it's no masterpiece

Rating: 5/10 (6 November 2014)

(43%) A darling amongst a good majority of both critics and horror fans, but quite honestly it's not really for me. By far the best part is the group entering the cave and them just tackling the obstacles, but once things start to get more horror based and the creatures start to show up (think Gollum, crossed with the anger of a ticked off bear) it just becomes a generic horror in which one by one the cast get picked off, and most interest from them on diminishes. And because this is set in such a dark location it becomes almost impossible to keep any sort of tabs on what exactly is happening to any one of its characters, so any thoughts and feelings around any of them is wasted as yet another one is eaten and you'd be damned if you knew for sure who it was. The direction for the most part is fine with some nice shots popping up, but during any sort of action it is choppy and hard to follow making it even harder to care. Overall this is not bad, just overrated, and it could have been a lot worse. For instance It could have been a found footage movie, and that would have really sucked.