Fairly entertaining...

Rating: 5/10 (9 March 2006)

A group of adventurous girls decide to descend into a big cavern nobody ever had descent before. There they'll bump into the unexpected... The first half of the movie is quite attractive, but as soon as the "mystery" is revealed the plot ends and begins an orgy of blood and fast camera movements. And the ending... well, the ending is rather mediocre.
Some good frights and the typical characters of adventure/horror movies: the reckless one, the expert, the tough one, and the faint-hearted (that eventually demonstrates she's the strongest of them all). I guess the real merits of "The descent" are in the technical aspects: it ain't easy to film a movie in in such small and dark interiors.
I don't recommend this one to those who suffer from claustrophobia. For the rest of you, well, it's a fairly entertaining film.
*My rate: 5/10