Had the Audience Laughing

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2006)

Overall: This "boogie man is coming after you" movie was not scary though it did have suspenseful moments from time to time. Audience laughed at the cliché poses and "dramatic events." One lady had to remind her friends from time to time to "stop laughing, it's supposed to be scary." Plot line moved too quickly for real character development to take place. Actresses played their parts well given the constraints they appeared to be under. Small children would probably be very frightened however.
Positive: Unnerving (for me) spelunking scenes, cute British accents, no sexual themes, and good actresses.
Negative: Lack of focus on individual emotions limited realism of crisis situations. The evil force was revealed to such an extent that the movie lost, very quickly, any "Blair Witch Project" type suspense of the unknown and turned into the "Friday the 13th" get away from the bad guy genre.
Conclusion: Not "Jaws" at all. Wait for it to come out on DVD.