A good attempt but failed to scare me

Rating: 4/10 (14 March 2008)

This is a pretty good attempt on a quite original plot with some good actors and also some fairly scary scenes. The actors if sometimes wooden did portray some good changes in character - hence the name the descent may not only mean the literal term - a descent into a cave and a deep place but also the descent of the characters ultimately because one of the group deceives them into thinking that they are in a different cave and therefore they get lost.
There are some questionable scenes in it such as the one where one of the characters is still alive after having a hole through her neck and half of her intestines ripped out by the flesh eating monsters. Another groanable scene is when one of the monsters steps on a woman's face - now seeing as they are blind and have acute other senses then one would think that it would feel the body heat. But no, conveniently it ignores her and carries on to feast on her comrades guts - lovely stuff.
For me the ending wasn't satisfying and left me completely emotionless - any feelings i had built up for the characters during the film were completely confused when the woman escapes then is back in the cave with several monsters surrounding her. And then her little girl appears singing happy birthday to her!
Altogether worth a watch but don't expect too much from it it won't satisfy your needs, either for scare-horror or a good film.