They shoulda stayed home and learned how to make pie crusts

Rating: 8/10 (20 August 2006)

Talk about a vacation from hell. Six women who like living life on the edge decide to go caving to help cheer up one of their own who's husband and daughter were killed in a freak auto accident.
The women in the cast are wonderfully believable. They are attractive, but there's not a cheerleader clone among them. They all come across as smart and capable.
The caving starts out in a beautiful serene setting, but as they descend further into the earth things begin to go wrong. The cave itself becomes very claustrophobic.
I happen to be claustrophobic, and I had a tough time sitting through this part of the film. If it had been a straight action flick about spelunking this claustrophobic cave, I don't think I could have taken it.
But the cave opens up and then the violence begins. The editing during the gore scenes was very effective, slow enough to give you a feeling of what was going on, but fast enough that it wasn't totally disgusting and you didn't have time to notice how they were faked. The fight scenes were cut a bit too fast. It was often difficult to tell who was fighting what and how many.
A word of caution when you watch this movie. There is an important subtext between two of the women that is set up at the very beginning of the movie. So pay attention to who treats who in what manner. Women will probably see it right away, but men may miss it.