Dull start to weekend

Rating: 2/10 (3 March 2006)

Feeling tired after work on a Friday I thought I'd give this a go on digital purchase instead of joining the others down the pub. I wish I was down the pub with the others.
In fact by about the 20th minute, after witnessing the OTT close-up 'action' ice-pick holstering, and pointlessly clinking the climbing hardware assertively (imagery: must be 'hard as nails') for the 10th time I wearily began to make dinner.
A further 40 minutes or so passed before anything really event-worthy took place. (Although there were several more assertive clinking moments and some derring-do which I didn't really understand as I'm ignorant on cave dropping). But do English women out-machismo each other and shout 'Hey guys!' to friends of same sex in real life? Possibly, but none that I have met in 30+ years living in England. Perhaps it's just extreme sports types. Or not southern types.
Besides woeful engagement with the characters... The opening section (5-7 mins) is actually pretty good and I hoped this may serve yo introduce a few twists later on in the film. But no. When they finally get in the cave it is one of those horrors where you could press pause, script the next 'scare', un-pause and sit smugly back whilst your script is dutifully acted out. Bats; horror-turn to see.. friend suddenly appear; Gollum/Nosferatu things that fail to scare before, but certainly after, they are killed at a much greater rate than the heroines. Wusses who can't see? why not just keep chucking rocks wherever you're not.
If you are thinking: The Descent or The Pub?, descend down the boozer. It will be more scary.