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Cave, The (2005)


One 1/2 out of Five

Movie

Rating: PG-13 (intense creature violence)
Length: 97 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.40:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Captions

English, French

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Plot

The movie opens up to a scene that happened 30 years ago. A group of treasure hunters enter a church that's high up in the Carpathians in Romania. They find, you guessed it, a cave and that leads to their immediate demise. Fast forward to today, the cave has been found again and a group of cave explorers and divers are called in to check it out.

Pros

If you're claustrophobic, this movie will be a different experience to you. Some of the underwater scenery is quite beautiful.

Cons

Just about everything else. The script was definitely meant for teenagers and at times, it sounds like it was written by teenagers. All the actors look like they were discovered from the cover of fashion magazines. This movie should have been entitled "Pretty People go Spelunking". I really believe the actors did the best they could with the script that was full of some pretty cheesy and clichéd dialog. I cringed at some of the things that were said. All that was missing was for two of them to die while half naked and making out behind a rock.

Extras

  • Filmmaker's Commentary
  • Writer's Commentary
  • "Into the Cave" Feturette (much better and more interesting than the movie)
  • "Designing Evolution: Tatopoulos Studios" Featurette
  • Bonus Trailers

Recommendation

If you want to see a movie that makes you scared to be in the water, watch "Jaws". If you want a good creature/horror/suspense movie, watch "Alien/Aliens".

Director

Bruce Hunt   [Dark City]

Actors

Zoltan Butuc - Corvin
Morris Chestnut - Top Buchanan
[Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, The Game Plan, G.I. Jane, Ladder 49]
Eddie Cibrian - Tyler
Kieran Darcy-Smith - Strode
Cole Hauser - Jack
[2 Fast 2 Furious, Good Will Hunting, Hart's War, Pitch Black, Tears of the Sun]
Lena Headey - Kathryn
[300, Merlin, Ripley's Game]
Marcel Iures - Dr. Nicolai
[Hart's War, Mission Impossible]
David Kennedy - Ian
[Reign of Fire]
Daniel Dae Kim - Alex Kim
Simon Kunz - Mike
[The Bunker, GoldenEye]
Alan Panc - Raven
Piper Perabo - Charlie
[The Prestige]
Vlad Radescu - Dr. Bacovia
Rick Ravanello - Briggs
[Hart's War]
Kieran Darcy-Smith - Strode
Brian Steele - Creature Performer
[Doom, Hellboy, Underworld: Evolution]

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