The Cave (2005)

Sick Product of a Sick System

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Beautiful, moving film.

The beginning of the movie shows a lot of promise. You see a group of modern ecology surveyors with believable high tech equipment and friendship, exploring beautiful places. Also, the cast contains some top notch TV stars. Also, you can feel their explorers passion about their work when they talk about being the first to chart places or see creatures never studied before. This calls back memories of the excavators in Titanic or the tornado chasers in Twister. However, once they get lost in the cave, the movie attempts a scare tactic with shaking the camera around, so you only see bits and pieces of the action - a rock here, a splash there, and you have to see the characters talk about it afterward to find out what happened. I guess this form of camera shooting is designed to make the viewer feel like they, too, are a victim flailing around in the water. This effect works in low budget films like the Blair Witch Project and Cloverfied, because you can believe it was filmed by the characters, and the camera went crazy during traumatic events, leaving the viewer mystified and horrified. It doesn't really work in a big budget thriller like this, because after all the georgous setup, when things get scary, you want to see what's going on.Also, it is dissapointing they went the horror movie route by showing these people desparate against the creatures. The characters freak out, attack eachother, and frequently get lost or separated for no apparent reason. I would have liked to see this group of brave young explorers put up a better fight to share the cave with the outside world.It picks up toward the end, though, and the end twist is some sci fi goodness.

Nice movie, good cust..... specially the storyline...very interesting not boring .... music and sets were also good....I am giving it 9 out of 10 stars..

RELEASED IN 2005 and directed by Bruce Hunt, "The Cave" details events when a team of cave divers led by brothers Jack (Cole Hauser) and Tyler (Eddie Cibrian) are commissioned to explore a cave network in the Carpathian Mountains. Unfortunately an explosion cuts off their exit and traps them in the vast network. As if finding a way out isn't difficult enough, they also have to deal with strange vicious creatures living there.While "The Cave" isn't anywhere near as good "Alien" (1979) or "Aliens" (1986), it's competent enough (and should be with its whopping $30 million budget) and similar to those films, except taking place in the alien world of a cave network rather than a vessel in space or an alien planet. Speaking of the cave network, there are some awe-inspiring cave locations and sets.Except for the opening and close, the entire movie takes place in the caverns. The creatures are an effective meshing of the Xenomorph XX121 in the Alien franchise and the creeper from the Jeepers Creeper films.I didn't find the characters very engaging, but the story creates some decent suspense around the half hour mark. Although it isn't sustained, things perk up again in a thrilling sequence involving winsome Piper Perabo's character and her clash with a monster while climbing. This gripping episode is the main reason I grade the movie as high as I do. Lena Headey is the only other female in the cast.THE FILM RUNS 97 minutes and was shot in Romania (MediaPro Studios, Bucharest, as well as Zarnesti & Transylvania) and Mexico (Yucatan & Hidden Worlds Cenote Park, Quintana Roo). WRITERS: Michael Steinberg & Tegan West. ADDITIONAL CAST: Other members of the team are played by Morris Chestnut, Rick Ravanello, Daniel Dae Kim, Marcel Iures & Kieran Darcy-Smith.GRADE: B-

I seriously don't know what people expect from some movies? When I see that it's a thriller / adventure, and then I get an underground river, caves, darkness, creepy creatures etc well then I'm happy. That's what I was expecting and that's what I got. Don't try to compare it with Alien or whatever other movie. The Cave is the Cave and that's it. If you like a little bit of suspense, with strange creatures then you will like this movie. It might not be a masterpiece but it is for sure entertaining enough. Certainly compared to other movies that get a way higher ranking here on IMDb. I enjoyed it and I will probably watch it again in a couple years.