Light weight chic horror escapade

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2007)

A cut above the usual formulaic horror yarn, but not that far removed from its plot. This film failed to fascinate through hackneyed "psychological" tension between catty PMS'ing rock chicks who seem to be wearing an "easy kill" sign on their heads from the moment a line is dropped into the cave. 'The Descent' also failed to deliver seriously scary moments, even though it threw quite a few number of cheap false scare moments into the mix. This is mostly a "girls night out fright date" film, the "let's stay up and bake muffins, and watch Descent! Yay! kinda film".
'The Descent' also begs the question, if you had a "beef" with a cheating friend and both of you were fleeing flesh eating, cave dwelling humanoids, and your chances of survival were hanging in the balance, would you stop to have it out, or would you help each other to escape, then have it out? Apparently the female mind rules the day here. It's not wonder the film, therefore, has no happy ending.
On the plus side, credit goes to the creature's creators, set design and other technical merits (probably all created by males). 'The Descent' isn't total garbage, there's some things to like about it, including the Filipina chic playing tough-girl "Juno", but it's fairly forgettable.