Gratuitous gore.

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2005)

I watched this film last night  expecting something really great and was very disappointed.
For me the film sets up rhetorical situations i.e. when they are crawling through the tiny tunnel I just knew that the cave would collapse. Tunnel and cave have been OK for 100 years but decide to collapse when the girls pay a visit  so obvious.
Why didn't the girls have walkie talkies? They seemed to have helmets and lamps that were very expensive and survived water and everything else  common sense would be to have radio communication in case of emergencies.
I found the dimly lit action sequences tedious and gratuitous.
Some of the eye make seemed to survive exceptionally well! For me The Descent was little more than a Halloween type slasher movie hopefully in a couple of years time it will be completely forgotten.