a poorly made movie based on a "point horror" book style story

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2006)

I personally fail to see what lies behind the support this movie seems to be receiving.
I did see this movie and can honestly say that I didn't enjoy a moment of it until the timely demise of the Irish girl. After which in hindsight I feel I should have left the cinema. This unfortunately was not the case.
I think the main problem was nothing made me care about what happened to the characters let alone want any character to survive, be it a comment at the beginning of the movie that raised pity or even the fact that they actually deserved to survive to the end.
As for the feeling of claustrophobia, I felt that this was hampered by the fact that the time when it felt like the walls were closing in, well they actually did...close in that is. Which kind of ruined the point.
The Crawlers while a good creature in theory just didn't have enough consistency in they're actions to make them a realistic creature never mind threat to a group of seemingly "once a year" adventurers.
They seemed to have two senses hearing and touch neither of which were overly fantastic as there were so many scenes when the "heroes" of the piece were inches away from the crawlers and then got ignored by holding their breaths? These creatures hunt an kill large game (according to the carcasses in their lair) and yet can be out fought one on one.
From the majority of people on these forums seem to be defending this movie by saying it's a monster movie and not a slasher flick, not more PG-13 rubbish, and so on but with the amount of nods to other movies from Deliverance to Carrie, and the fact that a biologist just happened to be one of the team in order to give the fact that this "could happen" some credibility. I don't see how this could be anything more than a poorly written b-movie with the twist that it was set in a cave.