Reviews

I have a very love-hate relationship with this movie. I think, certain elements of the movie such as being trapped underwater in a cave system is quite terrifying. However, other elements of the movie, such as the alpha male trope, the extreme nature of the underwater cave system, and cringe, worthy dialogue, wear the movie out fast. The movie has a pretty decent set up until you meet the dive team. Immediately you're immersed the classic alpha-male trope of trying to impress an intelligent woman by using caveman tactics. Then the alpha male Exodus continues throughout the entirety of the movie. It's like each guy is constantly trying to prove that he's right by the size of what dangles between his legs. Further, the male goading seems adolescent at best. This really sours the overall tone of the movie for me. I feel like a team that has worked together like they have, should be able to move above this type of behavior. I felt like I was trapped in high school with a bunch of jocks using brute force, and testosterone to try and solve a complex problem. The next issue relates to the Movies progression We go from getting trapped in an underwater cave system which by itself is terrifying. However, this doesn't seem like it's enough for the people who created the film. Almost immediately after being trapped in the caves, the movie severely jumps the shark and does so repeatedly. It goes from the simplicity and scary nature of complicated underwater caves to scaling huge rock faces only to fall through ice, and eventually come out in an area that has lava and fire. I don't know much about underground exploration, but this movie takes it to the extreme and then some. Overall, the movie is entertaining, but also seems to sabotage itself by being over the top, overly dramatic, and fueled by testosterone. It's overall score seems perfect. I think a six would be giving it too much credit.

This movie had great potential. It also has some great action, but 3 things kill it. First is the dark. It is so hard to see the action because they filmed it in the dark. I don't know how it got through editing without someone saying something like "I can't edit what I can't see"! Second problem is an inept predator. The Predator known as "Wolf", was supposed to be a superior predator. Meaning he has seen it all and lived to keep fighting. Yet, he gets kicked around like a Youngblood in the first AVP. Granted, there are a lot of aliens against one predator, but he still supposed to be a superior combatant. Yet an alien is able to sneak up on him from literally below his feet. The third killer is the Xenomorph's behavior. Xenomorphs live in the shadows and hide in their environment. When I saw them come out of the sewer in the middle of the street I wanted to cry. Xenomorphs would never do this. The reason they are so deadly is they use the dark and wait to ambush. Maybe they thought they were hiding in the dark given the lighting of the move? Anyway, if your bored, give it a watch (hope you can see it), but don't expect too much. I really recommend watching the first movie. It's not great either, but at least you can see it!

So this move is very interesting on some levels, mildly entertaining on others, but fails overall. The whole move focus is on who's the killer? However, it is like it's trying to be cryptic and obvious at the same time. When you find out that the killer is who everyone thought it was, it's kills everything the move had going for it. The other killer, besides the one in the movie, relates to the pacing and tone. The pacing is slow, it picks up, and then it's slow, it picks up again and dies. It does this over and over until about the last 10 minutes. To add to the problems with pacing, you have a movie that seems to forget it is R rated. It will play out like a PG-13 and then it's like the director remembers it's supposed to be an R rated move. In these moments, they will throw in some random graphic violence, nudity, profanity, etc. They then slip back to the PG-13 flow only to continue to throw in more randomness of R rated materials. If you choose to watch it, turn your brain off and lower you expectation level to very low and you might find some enjoyment.