OK a few viewers have canned it for its predictable script, one dimensional characters.
But let us be fare, its the Poseidon Adventure in a cave system. Georges Polti claimed there is only 36 dramatic situations that can be written. With the amount of movies people see nowadays, yes there will be similar story lines. I mean look at Avatar, the Last Samurai and Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest. As far as predicable, well I knew people were going to die because of the opening sequence and it was about people in a desperate situation with limited resources.
One dimensional characters? Well I found them multidimensional. This was a movie about disaster and individuals facing their mortality and their reactions to that concept. An example of this is the attitude of the 2 main characters. Frank's attitude was "no-ones coming, never give up", while Carl's was, "hopefully someone will come and help, why don't we wait". And watch how the sons hero worship slowly transferred. Now that is multidimensional.
3D also has its critics but as my teenage daughter said, it really lifted the urgency of the movie, like Avatar there was no 50"s tricks it was just there. To me 3D is the same as when movies went from square to wide screen it creates involvement. I have caved dived and let me tell you the vistas in Sanctum are not what I experienced but I wished I had.
At last a movie about people not monsters. No strange man eating creature anywhere, this about the monsters from within, fear and expectable behaviour that may need to be changed to survive or to help a friend.
I recommend this movie to anyone and I will be buying the DVD. I just got to buy the 3D TV and DVD Player.
But let us be fare, its the Poseidon Adventure in a cave system. Georges Polti claimed there is only 36 dramatic situations that can be written. With the amount of movies people see nowadays, yes there will be similar story lines. I mean look at Avatar, the Last Samurai and Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest. As far as predicable, well I knew people were going to die because of the opening sequence and it was about people in a desperate situation with limited resources.
One dimensional characters? Well I found them multidimensional. This was a movie about disaster and individuals facing their mortality and their reactions to that concept. An example of this is the attitude of the 2 main characters. Frank's attitude was "no-ones coming, never give up", while Carl's was, "hopefully someone will come and help, why don't we wait". And watch how the sons hero worship slowly transferred. Now that is multidimensional.
3D also has its critics but as my teenage daughter said, it really lifted the urgency of the movie, like Avatar there was no 50"s tricks it was just there. To me 3D is the same as when movies went from square to wide screen it creates involvement. I have caved dived and let me tell you the vistas in Sanctum are not what I experienced but I wished I had.
At last a movie about people not monsters. No strange man eating creature anywhere, this about the monsters from within, fear and expectable behaviour that may need to be changed to survive or to help a friend.
I recommend this movie to anyone and I will be buying the DVD. I just got to buy the 3D TV and DVD Player.