The Descent: Part 2 (2010)

hyped garbage

Admirable film.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Picking up where the first film left off, Sarah is covered in blood and tracks down a vehicle on the road. As the women are reported missing the sheriff decides to re-enlist Sarah's help and take a cave dwelling team down. The cinematography of the cave sequences is very telling. The creatures are virtually creepy as hell and very well done makeup wise. A couple faults is the grotesque scenes of blood imagery are way off, blood does not look real. The dialogue is basic and story is flat, but the ending leaves the door open for a third installment.

I loved the first one. This one had the challenge of no "reveal" of the monster, as we knew what was coming. For the most part, still lots of scares, and Juno showing up was cool. But for Sarah to sacrifice herself for the cop (which she knew was a mother), only for said cop to be hit in the head with the guy in the NY Yankees cap (which also didn't make sense...I dare you to find somebody in rural NC wearing a NY Yankees cap), and sacrificed to the dwellers...that just jacked up the ending. I thought the ending would have been better had the cop just gone home and not turned into food. I suppose it was a set up for a possible Decent 3, which has clearly never happened...probably for good reason. Story should have been done with this one. Still worth watching.

The gore was disgusting. Great style. It started off really strongly continuing the first movie. It revised everything that it should have. There were some weaker moments. The ending was fitting with the first movie although overall it was definitely lacking the charm and atmosphere of the original. A worthy sequel but it is no Aliens (1986).

If, like me, you watched the original UK version of 'The Descent' you might have wondered how protagonist Sarah Carter could be in this one as well as the last time we saw her she was still deep underground surrounded by the crawlers… the producers clearly wanted at least one returning cast member so decided to follow on from the alternate US ending where she gets out of the caves.Set a couple of days after Sarah and her party went missing the rescue party is searching the wrong cave system; then she turns up covered in her friends blood but with no memory of what happened. Her trail is traced back to an old mine and a rescue party is sent in; they are accompanied by the local sheriff and his deputy as well as Sarah, who the sheriff is convinced killed her friends. They haven't been in the caves long when Sarah starts to have flashbacks and flees from the others. Soon afterwards a rock fall separates the group and not long after that they learn that they are not alone. The crawlers start picking them off and the terror of the first film starts to repeat itself as the survivors try get out of the caves before the crawlers can get to them.I had heard that this sequel was disappointing so put off watching it till I saw the DVD in the bargain bin… to be honest it isn't that bad and perhaps because I'd been prepared to be disappointed I ended up enjoying it more than I expected… that doesn't mean it is as good as the first; just better than it might have been. Once we have seen that Sarah did in fact survive the action quickly moves back underground and once there the tension remains high. The setting is just as claustrophobic as the first film and if anything the crawlers are even scarier. The level of gore has increased considerably with plenty of blood spilt every time anybody dies or in one case has his arm hacked off with a climbing pick! The weakness of this film is the characters; in the original we had a tight-knit, all-girl group of friends but here many of them don't know each other. The characters are also less sympathetic; this is especially true of the unlikeable sheriff whose actions repeatedly endanger everybody. There are a few twists along the way; some good (the reappearance of a familiar face, don't read the cast list before watching) and some rather poor (the ending). Overall I'd say this was decent enough; a little disappointing compared to the first but still better than many horror films.