clichéd rubbish and a wasted opportunity

Rating: 2/10 (17 July 2005)

This film is truly awful. It starts promisingly and the initial pot-holing scenes are very good and uncomfortably claustrophobic. Unfortunately it goes downhill almost immediately and doesn't stop until it has reached rock, rock bottom. The feeling of genuine claustrophobia is soon replaced with boring repetitive violence and scenes so full of clichés that many members of the audience, including myself, were unable to stifle their laughter. Realism goes out of the window, the script follows, and the whole thing grinds on until it reaches an unimaginative 'climax'. It is however mercifully short, which makes it a 2 rather than a 1.