The Ending - A bit too theatrical?

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2005)

I did like the film. I thought it was scary and in-depth and was on the edge of my seat or squeezing my partners hand for a lot of it . I liked it up the the very last 4 or 5 seconds. I liked the fact that we thought she had got out and survived but we find she is still in the cave. Then she starts hallucinating about her daughter again and has a psycho smile on her, like its the end and she knows it but she's with her daughter so its OK. The only thing that struck me as weird was when the camera zoomed out and we saw her in a random alcove in a massive cave face and then there's a random scream. This is all very ambiguous and theatrical. Films are usually finished with a definite question or ending but this felt random and not physically realistic when the rest of the film was. Didn't she fall down a hole to land where she was? How did she get there? It's a small thing to moan about but the ending can make so much difference to a film.