Average

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2005)

I had high hopes for this movie but ultimately found it a lacklustre film that had me clock watching after 15 minutes. When the film becomes more than a pot-holing exercise it does become briefly interesting - but only slightly. It's main failing was the characters - not one of them was truly likable (well, maybe one). Modern films that have groups of people facing tricky situations seem to follow a template that no longer works. There's the Joker in the pack, the brain, the sensitive one etc...they are all represented here but they are all just so annoying. These people need to be more humdrum, then perhaps i would have cared if they had come through this or not.
I would have thought that the setting would have made for a claustrophobic feel to the film but it never engaged my emotions in that way. Aliens, and to some degree the Abyss managed to successfully create that claustrophobic feel but this fell flat. Amazing considering this film is set in a cave.
I also did not like the way in which several of the characters react to the threat they are faced with - it was like a couple of them became little Rambo's. I have given this film 4 and that (to me) means it is a below average film.