Duped by the Reviews Again

Rating: 3/10 (6 August 2006)

I usually do not like gory horror films but "The Descent" got pretty good reviews from the professional critics so I thought I would give it a try. It turned out to be a total waste of time and money.
The production quality is much lower than what we are accustomed to in mainstream American films. The photography is fuzzy and the sound is distorted. The first hour is about a woman's personal tragedy and a group of women who go cave crawling. This part of the film is not made very well and is pretty boring. The monsters are pretty good, but they do not come in till very late in the film and by that point I was already bored to death.
If you like gory horror films, you might like "The Descent" better than I did. If you are planning to see it, you might want to skip the first hour.