Descend into deep doodoo

Rating: 1/10 (30 November 2007)

The Descent. What a brilliant name for a movie that doesn't live up to its title. A group of women literally descend into a cave and then descend into their own abysmal hell because their relationships suck. Nobody trusts anybody. Then it gets even worse when they find themselves lost and to top it all off, a bunch of sullen cave "monsters" show up. Or do they? The dream sequences and hallucinations serve only to confuse an already weak story. The only true descent of this film is its lack of believability. You'll find yourself laughing at the stupidity of the cave "creatures" who happen to look just like us only dirtier. Half the movie is spend watching them crawl around in mud and somehow miraculously not find and eat our super spelunking ladies. Neither the American or the British ending serve to tie up the wildly loose ends of this cave dwelling flop.