Contained enough unusual scenery and frightening sequences to keep my mind off its farfetched plot most of the time.
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08/28/05
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The Cave (2005)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:13
Rotten:90
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Despite its stylized and impressive sets, this horror-monster movie mish-mash suffers from endless cliches and wildly implausible plotlines.
Theatrical Release:Aug 26, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $14,888,028
Synopsis: A sexy bunch of underwater explorers are summoned to Romania's Carpathian Mountains, where scientists have discovered a gigantic cave network containing a lengthy underground river. Cutting-edge... [More]
Starring: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Daniel Dae Kim
Director: Bruce Hunt
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Reviews for The Cave
Constrained and unreadable, the space turns invaders into opportunistic killers (or maybe just rearrangers, a next step in body snatching).
08/26/05
So very, very stupid... and so very, very fun.
08/27/05
Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp.
08/30/05
Top CriticThink Of It As Pitch Black Meets Alien With A Little Twist.
08/25/05
if you enjoy watching flying, bloodthirsty monsters chase people around dark places, you’ll get a kick from the film
08/27/05
Romps along on its endearingly dumb, shameless wavelength.
08/27/05
Not a classic by any means, but possibly one you might want to add to your Netflix queue for a rainy day.
09/06/05
Just barely worth exploring. (On DVD, that is.)
08/25/05
The best part is that it takes place in a couple of locales -- spelunking in a cave and diving underwater -- that we don't normally go, unless it's a nature documentary.
08/25/05
Bruce Hunt’s directing debut displays a cold-blooded efficiency and refreshing lack of Michael Bay–ish hyperactivity in what is otherwise a solid if unspectacular action-horror flick.
08/25/05
Characters leap, dive, climb, swim, lift, and run from one scene to the next. The Cave is the celluloid personification of 'Outside Magazine.'
08/30/05
If you gotta rip something off, might as well be a classic.
08/25/05
The pretty cast gets knocked off in order of attractiveness (the least cute bite it earlier on) and the monsters and action are shot in such a way as to maximize the overall incoherence.
09/03/05
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09/03/05
Not once is The Cave scary, suspenseful, or worth the brain cells you'll lose trying to dumb yourself down to its level.
08/26/05
Most everyone in the audience, except those rendered unconscious by boredom, will see the 'big twist' plot turn coming well in advance, although the qualifiers 'big' and 'twist' seem overblown and inexact.
08/26/05
it isn’t just tedious, it isn’t just silly, no, it goes the distance until it actually becomes a personal affront to the sensibilities of everyone concerned
08/24/05
Has atmosphere to burn (and one lulu of a set-piece involving a rock-climbing Piper Perabo) but [the] mixmaster editing style drains away much of the film's urgency.
09/01/05
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