I was less impressed

Rating: 5/10 (16 August 2006)

Went to go see the movie based on the "excellent" reviews. I completely disagree.
It is a run of the mill, cliché horror flick. Average in almost every way.
SPOILER ALERT There was almost no character development. There are a few cookie-cutter set ups: "the brash one", "the scarred for life one" etc... But I couldn't get attached to any of them as viable living, breathing people. They just threw them all in a bag together and said "tada a cast!" Were they all English? Juno went in and out of accents, it didn't seem right. The acting was so/so.
The "Gollums" were unoriginal. Rather boring antagonists. So they are perfectly evolved cave dwelling morlocks, but they'll walk over a human if they can't hear them? How do they find the one's they've already killed? They sure aren't making noise. If they have an acute sense of smell and hearing, why can't they find a girl who's heart is beating 160 and is covered with blood? The suspense gets old real fast. If you've seen even a few suspense/horror flicks, you know the old "it's clear...see...really...even though the music track went high then stopped" thing. It's used for every single part of the movie. And the wonderfully overused "is he dead" trick. Like a broken record.
And then the end. I haven't seen BOTH endings, but the one I saw was horrible. AGAIN if you haven't seen it, and think the sub-par, non-cult mass monster movie thing is cool, no matter the quality, DON'T READ THIS. So when Sarah kills Juno, who just accidentally killed her friend, reappears in her car...Why? Is she crazy? Is it a ghost? A zombie? WHY WAS THAT ADDED? It just seems like a cheap ending. Or a writer who ran out of horrible ideas and asked a friend how to end the movie. "um, dead friend comes back from the dead?" Only way it could have been worse is the Cave monsters hot-wire the left behind BMW and go on a high speed chase after her.
Ugh.