Poor film, let down by a progressively weakening story line - (any wonder we have 20+ pages of reviews where people hated this film)

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2005)

Please - this film is a no brainer - don't go with the flow - this film makes me embarrassed to be British. This film is so uneventful, that me and my girlfriend walked out of the cinema brain dead. Watching paint dry would have been more fun.
This is glorified potholing for people willing to suspend reality and common sense! and who are open to accepting the most total and bizarrely unrealistic and far fetched scenarios - couple that with low budget scares and you've a recipie for disaster.
This film wants you to use your imagination. Now If I wanted to use my imagination throughout the entire film... I may as well go to sleep and have a dream! ...
I'd like to say that it's because of the rating that this film had on IMDb, that I went to watch it. A decision I now regret, so much so, I've been compelled to warn others who think they're in for a really good film.... don't waste your time. There must be a conspiracy for this to have been rated 7+
Take a scroll through the rest of the comments on this film and you'll soon realise that the majority of these reviewers are from the UK, and their reviews seem to be very biased as this is a British production - to all those people, we're not voting for England here, we're voting to indicate the quality of the film!
I'm not anti-British or anything, hell I live in England, and I only just saw creep recently.. a film which I thought was a lot better than this.
Descent is an utter and total waste of time - seriously! There's plenty of gore if that's what you're looking for - but lets break this film down and look at the constituent elements and premise behind the storyline and events in this film which are so far fetched - that brought me to the conclusion that: you'd have to be cloud cuckoo land to accept all of them.
Essentially, a whole bunch of women get together... with one who takes it upon herself to deceive the entire rest of the group and lead them into previously uncharted potholing territory even after numerous attempts by the rest of the group to question where they're going. Now that might be fine, but we're given no motive as to why she's suddenly decided to lead a whole bunch of women to a previously unexplored and uncharted hole in the ground.
The horror aspect of the film was a total non-entity - the idea would have worked so much more better had they focused on the human element of the whole scenario that these girls get themselves into, i.e. if we accept they've got themselves into this situation where they are lost underground - let's have a drama where these women can't get out and die trying - or even where at least there's one creature not hundreds running amok and camera angles so poor you just see a haze of activity but you're unable to really make anything out!
This film isn't scary full stop, the storyline was pants! The ending was anti-climatic, the actors couldn't act, and when the horror aspect of the film starts, the camera movements are so jerky - that you couldn't see what the hell was going on in all the confusion. The camera never stayed on the creatures long enough for you to make out what they were - no surprise there though - this film was produced on a shoestring budget. And for all of you saying to yourselves .. "well this is what made the film brilliant"... then I don't really think there's much I can say to you, because if that's your idea of fun, then we're at the opposite ends of the thinking spectrum.
I can't recommend this film because you'd be wasting your time. The film had promise, bit of a shame really. Apt the name of this film really - The Descent... and oh boy does this film descend into total boredom.
ps. Check out the number of goofs for this amateur production..