With James Cameron's name attached to this, I had hopes the movie might be well done. I knew there was a possibility that James worked on this so he could play around in caves. Unfortunately, it looks like James took a movie destined to be boring and simply did his best to make it better. He failed.
As people should know, this movie takes place in a cave. The setup of the movie far outshines anything that actually takes place in the cave. The characters are defined early in the movie and after that, you need to have a pillow ready. It's flat out boring. Needless to say, people die. The stupidity of some characters provides plenty of foreshadowing. The cave footage is interesting, but it all looks alike. There are no exotic structures in the cave. There is no attempt to be careful and preserve the future of formations that took millions of years. The movie Turistas has better underwater cave footage.
This movie was a huge disappointment. Perhaps that is because I get no thrill out of seeing stupidity. These people knew a storm was coming, but didn't care enough to get out early and let the storm pass. The characters repeatedly do stupid things or prolong boring scenes to try and input some sense of drama.
If you really love boring caves and seeing people die for stupid reasons, rush out and see it in the theater. I do not feel that this is worth watching. Only the extremely curious should consider buying or renting the movie.
I did not see the 3D version. I'm sure some of the early 3D visuals would have been nice. Once inside the cave, I just wanted the plot to speed up. I Don't think 3D would make a boring movie like this more interesting.
As people should know, this movie takes place in a cave. The setup of the movie far outshines anything that actually takes place in the cave. The characters are defined early in the movie and after that, you need to have a pillow ready. It's flat out boring. Needless to say, people die. The stupidity of some characters provides plenty of foreshadowing. The cave footage is interesting, but it all looks alike. There are no exotic structures in the cave. There is no attempt to be careful and preserve the future of formations that took millions of years. The movie Turistas has better underwater cave footage.
This movie was a huge disappointment. Perhaps that is because I get no thrill out of seeing stupidity. These people knew a storm was coming, but didn't care enough to get out early and let the storm pass. The characters repeatedly do stupid things or prolong boring scenes to try and input some sense of drama.
If you really love boring caves and seeing people die for stupid reasons, rush out and see it in the theater. I do not feel that this is worth watching. Only the extremely curious should consider buying or renting the movie.
I did not see the 3D version. I'm sure some of the early 3D visuals would have been nice. Once inside the cave, I just wanted the plot to speed up. I Don't think 3D would make a boring movie like this more interesting.
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