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The Cave (2005)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:1
Rotten:22
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Despite its stylized and impressive sets, this horror-monster movie mish-mash suffers from endless cliches and wildly implausible plotlines.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense creature violence.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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... 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 breathing gear gets unpacked, camaraderie and budding romances develop, and then everyone becomes trapped in the depths, where monsters start picking off cast members, one by one. Escape depends on Jack, played by the dependably steely-eyed Cole Hauser (PAPARAZZI), who picked up a bad monster bite that may have infected his mind. Super-vixen Charlie (Piper Perabo) stands by him and displays a soothing screen presence as the tomboy rock climber in the crew, while Leana Headey plays the sexy Romanian biologist who fears that Jack is turning into a monster himself. Fans of B-movie monster movies should find this a nice cave to visit; there's no skimping on action or impressive set design, and each new cavern is weirder and more claustrophobic than the last. Staggeringly tall cliff faces, dark ominous waters, and a great, nerve-wracking orchestral soundtrack all add up to a fun horror adventure in the classic Saturday matinee sense. Of course, like all good monster movies, it borrows liberally from past classics: think of it as ANACONDA meets ALIEN by way of JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, and if that doesn't sound like a fine way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon, make sure you tread carefully as you exit THE CAVE! [More]
Starring: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Daniel Dae Kim
Starring: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Daniel Dae Kim, Kieran Darcey-Smith, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Iures, Lena Headey, Piper Perabo
Director: Bruce Hunt
Director: Bruce Hunt
Screenwriter: Michael Steinberg
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Andrew Mason, Richard S. Wright, Michael Ohoven
Composer: Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
Studio: Screen Gems
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Reviews for The Cave
Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp.
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.
Feels stunningly familiar as it goes through the rote edicts of the scientific crew vs. toothy beastie formula.
Somewhere deep beneath the Carpathian mountains, something unholy stirs: It's an unspeakable stinker of a movie called The Cave.
A claustrophobic horror film that provides nothing original beyond its underground setting.
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.
The Cave has a brisk B-movie efficiency, and not much space for bad acting, but it is blatantly derivative -- Alien or Predator in a cave.
Logically, all the monsters would eat all the humans at once, and the movie would be over in about three minutes. In the case of The Cave, that would have been a good thing.
Is The Cave scary? Not especially, partly due to the creatures' goofy sound effects.
The Cave answers every question I've ever had about what might happen when a handful of hotties head deep inside the earth. For starters, the middle-aged and intelligent die early.
The Cave is a rare find, a film that is pure formula, yet impossible to follow.
The makers of The Cave must have conceived their plot by Googling 'creature features' and 'recipes for monster mash.'
A cheesy, often unintentionally funny, direct-to-video-caliber knockoff of Aliens that couldn't be more shallow.
Despite the occasional chuckles of embarrassment for what the cast (including Morris Chestnut, Piper Perabo, and Eddie Cibrian) must endure, The Cave is a dead end.
A bottomless pit of lame characters, horror-film cliches and improbable monsters.
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