I watched this because Danny Trejo was prominent on the poster. Do not be fooled as I was. He is in a few, brief scenes early on and then disappears for the rest of the movie.
The movie starts with some Afghan guys in a cave somewhere doing...something. Making drugs? They get killed by a monster. Then it cuts to some unspecific special forces black ops guys planning a very vague heist to steal...something. Gold I think. They are planning on hiding it in a cave. Coincidentally, it's the same cave. Then we cut to a group of soldiers in a village...somewhere doing...something who are then ambushed by...someone for...some reason. They take shelter in a cave which is, coincidentally, the same cave again. I guess the special forces black ops guys were going to hide their loot in a cave right by a village for some reason. The entrance is caved in and they are trapped with the monster...whatever it's supposed to be.
This movie is pretty bad. There are a couple of decent B movie veterans but most of the actors are pretty terrible. Most of them are not at all believable as soldiers. They scream, run around and randomly point their rifles at each other in a way that would get them kicked out of a local gun range. Most of the characters seem to have never heard of things like discipline or chain of command. One has multiple neurotic meltdowns and no one says a word. There is a part where people are hallucinating for some reason. Then it's just kind of dropped. It doesn't really serve any purpose but to pad the running time. The creature is only seen in glimpses early on. They should have stuck with that because it looks like crap. Once the monster starts attacking, it's just a pile of monster movie cliches until the cliche ending. It's not the worst thing ever but there are lots of better monster movies out there.
