Overrated horror movie that is average all around

Rating: 6/10 (7 August 2006)

Compared to most of the horror coming out of Hollywood these past few years, The Descent is a good movie. But that is because the horror genre has been hitting new lows courtesy of idiotic and no imagination Hollywood writers/directors for awhile now.
The movie isn't a total waste of money, but is certainly no masterpiece and is merely an average film that has a couple good "jump out of chair" moments. The creatures are OK, but silly too. There also is stupid logic in the movie. Like when the female Asian leader of the group secretly takes them to an unexplored dangerous cave system and she knows they have novices in the group who have never gone caving before?? And she has no idea of where the tiny crawlspace leads that they descend through at one point but she leads them through it anyway just for the thrill? Give me a frigging break, totally unrealistic.
If you have low expectations then The Descent isn't a terrible way to spend time at a movie, but is not memorable.