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The Cave (2005)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 107
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 95

Despite its stylized and impressive sets, this horror-monster movie mish-mash suffers from endless cliches and wildly implausible plotlines.

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Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 24

Despite its stylized and impressive sets, this horror-monster movie mish-mash suffers from endless cliches and wildly implausible plotlines.

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
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Terror lurks deep beneath the surface of the Earth in this thriller. While on a dig in a Romanian forest, a group of scientists make a startling find -- they find a huge abbey, dating back to the 13th Century, which was built over the entrance to a massive network of subterranean caves. Eager to learn what lurks within the caves, the scientists discover to their peril that a large part of the cave system is under water. Undeterred, the remaining scientists hire a team of American spelunkers who

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Fright-wise, The Cave is a dry hole.

August 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment (1)
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Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp.

August 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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The Cave isn't just a bad movie, it's a very, very, very bad movie, so bad that it can't even redeem itself by turning into high camp.

August 26, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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Feels stunningly familiar as it goes through the rote edicts of the scientific crew vs. toothy beastie formula.

August 26, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety
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Somewhere deep beneath the Carpathian mountains, something unholy stirs: It's an unspeakable stinker of a movie called The Cave.

August 26, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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The Cave is a decently crafted but unoriginal and uninspiring creature feature with a few moments of true entertainment that the rest of the film never matches up to.

March 18, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
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Replete with winged undersea cave monsters, unlikely mountain climbing heroics and a mutating microbe that turns its victims into creatures-in-waiting "The Cave" is a paint-by-numbers thriller lacking in pigment.

June 21, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

Hectic slasher movie about monsters. Too scary for little ones.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

About what you'd expect from a low budget, B-movie destined to reside among the direct-to-video releases at Blockbuster and the Saturday night features on the Sci-Fi Channel.

September 11, 2006
Christianity Today

O roteiro é ridículo, mas o filme consegue criar algumas seqüências tensas. Ainda assim, empalidece frente ao ótimo (e similar) The Descent.

April 30, 2006
Cinema em Cena

A completely anonymous and forgettable PG-13 creature feature.

February 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine

Somewhere in The Cave lies a good film. Maybe one day the good folks at Sony Pictures will dive deep into the all too obviously cut footage and restore it for us.

February 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Dread Central

...a dull, thoroughly unpleasant horror flick...

January 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
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The Cave has zero sex appeal but may turn you on to cave diving.

December 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comments (2)
Slant Magazine

...despite its shortcomings, The Cave does deliver on some of its promises.

December 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Dread Central

Audience Reviews for The Cave

If you're into caving and diving, you might get a slight kick out of this. If you're not, then don't bother.
January 27, 2013
vierasesine

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*Spoilers* The underwater photography is beautiful and I liked the idea. I really liked the monsters too, it was a nice idea to begin with but it soon got very silly indeed. The whole concept is ruined by the fact that there was a way out after all, thus making the parasitic monsters that evolved in total darkness and isolation impossible. What I hated most though was the colour by numbers characters, they were mostly unbelievable and could have been replaced with puppets. The last few minutes in the cave were stupid. In one scene, two groups go in different directions, one goes down a river in the opposite direction and the other climbs up half a mile of rock, then walks a further mile and then falls down an icy cliff, only to walk around a corner to greet the other team. Doh! Also, it quite clear the actors have breathing apparatus in their mouths while diving through the underwater caves but we are lead to believe they can communicate via a radio. Stupid. Treat your audience like idiots and your audience won't like it. Shame, as I think it had potential.
January 23, 2013
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