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The Cave (2005)

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Reviews Counted:23

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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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09/03/05
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Fright-wise, The Cave is a dry hole.

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08/31/05
Scott Brown
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Entertainment Weekly
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Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
08/30/05
Dennis Lim
Dennis Lim
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.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/26/05
Teresa Wiltz
Teresa Wiltz
Washington Post
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Feels stunningly familiar as it goes through the rote edicts of the scientific crew vs. toothy beastie formula.

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08/26/05
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
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.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/26/05
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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A claustrophobic horror film that provides nothing original beyond its underground setting.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/26/05
Peter Hartlaub
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
08/26/05
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle
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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.

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08/26/05
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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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.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
08/26/05
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Is The Cave scary? Not especially, partly due to the creatures' goofy sound effects.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
08/26/05
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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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.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/26/05
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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The Cave is a rare find, a film that is pure formula, yet impossible to follow.

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08/26/05
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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The makers of The Cave must have conceived their plot by Googling 'creature features' and 'recipes for monster mash.'

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08/26/05
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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A cheesy, often unintentionally funny, direct-to-video-caliber knockoff of Aliens that couldn't be more shallow.

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08/26/05
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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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.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
08/25/05
Kathy Cano Murillo
Kathy Cano Murillo
Arizona Republic
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A bottomless pit of lame characters, horror-film cliches and improbable monsters.

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08/25/05
Kirk Honeycutt
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