It starts off with a lot of promise as they introduce the characters and then the cave, but it just doesn't last.
The opening scenes are quite good, they build some tension and made me think this might be good. I think there was a better movie in the first group that went into the cave.
There weren't any jump scares like I'd expect in a movie like this and I only remember one "oh, no" moment. How do you have a horror, creature movie without a few times of building up and finding it is nothing. That is how you set it up to be a surprise when the creature appears.
A big problem is all the characters are one dimensional, most are action hero types and once in matching wet suits, in the dark, many of them look very similar. They really don't have personalities. It is very difficult to care when someone is in danger, if you don't know anything about that person and aren't even sure which one it is.
I get it, caves are dark and the shooting style was done to convey the claustrophobic feel at times and the chaotic at others. It was probably also to keep the production costs down by showing you less.
It wasn't actually bad, but it was also never actually good.
The opening scenes are quite good, they build some tension and made me think this might be good. I think there was a better movie in the first group that went into the cave.
There weren't any jump scares like I'd expect in a movie like this and I only remember one "oh, no" moment. How do you have a horror, creature movie without a few times of building up and finding it is nothing. That is how you set it up to be a surprise when the creature appears.
A big problem is all the characters are one dimensional, most are action hero types and once in matching wet suits, in the dark, many of them look very similar. They really don't have personalities. It is very difficult to care when someone is in danger, if you don't know anything about that person and aren't even sure which one it is.
I get it, caves are dark and the shooting style was done to convey the claustrophobic feel at times and the chaotic at others. It was probably also to keep the production costs down by showing you less.
It wasn't actually bad, but it was also never actually good.