Rapid Desent...

Rating: 3/10 (24 March 2007)

After being told again and again I should watch this movie because it's sooo creepy and gory and will scare me rigid , tonight I watched it. Desent is right indeed, it started well, the whole cave/pot holing plot could have been great...until the monsters came along. They instantly reminded me of Voldemort from Harry Potter, scary to kids maybe, to me they simply looked like daylight starved humans with bad (not menacing) teeth and made sounds like a cat in pain. From that point on it got steadily worse, less and less impresive. It didn't make me even nearly jump once and the only thing I found creepy was the fact they were deep in a cave, had the main plot unfolded with them fighting among each other and the battle of friendship tested then it would have held it's own but as it is, it sucked. As for the gore, yes lots of blood but rapid camera panning and shutter speed settings put paid to any real gore, I put it no more gory than the original Friday the 13th (which was a much better movie).
I give this 2 thumbs down, I only wish I had more thumbs.