Within (2005)

Just perfect...

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I've seen some crap-poor movies in my time on this earth, but sweet lord did this movie sucks! Apparently, the antagonist is Two-faces Russian son, who found a cave, got trapped in it, yet seems to be able to teleport throughout the cave (e.x. he goes back up to the top of the cave, seals them in, then somehow makes it back down into the cave. Why the eff did he not just leave years ago?) He is also either bullet- proof, or has mutant-like healing powers. I would guess the latter, since he can also phase through walls. Did I mention that all this "brutal" killing is just to get a piece a dat? Oh, and somehow (also not explained) a freaking airplane manages to get inside of this cave. If you want to waste an hour and 20 some odd minutes of your life, go watch a Godzilla film. Yes they're cheesy as heck, but at least they're endearing and re- watchable. Problems: Camera - Shaky cams have been done well before (Blair Witch, Cloverfield) and they've been done poorly (Monster) but throw in almost complete darkness and the almost dizzying camera becomes a confusing pain in the bum. Throw in the sequences of "shiz mah batteriez r dead" and everyone's batteries are out at the same time and you get squelchy invisible deaths (that ironically enough, one of them looks exactly the same as another shaky-cam movie, REC.) Story - None. The "backstory" is just confusing, and comes up at awkward times. The movie plot itself is this formula; Run -> Stop -> Freak -> Someone yells "calm down!" -> Batteries die -> person dies -> repeat. for the whole. movie.Positives: scenes? Belay that. Neither one made any dang sense.I'm going to go off somewhere and try to pretend I didn't just watch this p.o.s

A group of cocky Americans and their Kazakh guides go into a "cursed" cave. What follows appears to have been filmed with Photobooth on someone's Macbook with the "glow" effect turned all the way up. We're set up for something supernatural--the creature that stalks and kills most of the party seems to be capable of causing magnetic disturbances and is apparently impervious to bullets--but I guess they didn't have the budget for that. Instead we get a tacked-on ending about the disfigured survivor of a plane crash (who managed to singlehandedly bring the entire wing of a plane through the narrow tunnels of a cave at age 12...yeah, don't ask) and the whole thing ends with some freaky caveman rape.Seriously the worst movie ever. The best part about it was getting to write this review as revenge for the time taken out of my life to see it.

First of all, the set up was terrible. Cave enthusiasts go into the Kazakhstan wilderness? Why? Then the film wastes another 25 minutes or so setting up the characters background and motivation? WHY? The camera work was laughable, constantly panning left to right and in some cases directly into light sources, burning the audiences retina. Give me a break I turned it off after I witnessed the VERY FAKE computer generated fire coming from the fire pit. Then I turned it back on the next day to see how bad it could get, I shouldn't have. The cave was unconvincing, the audio was just passable, the camera lenses KEPT changing, soft blur, HD, on and on. In some cases they blocked the lens (probably with cardboard cut out) so you could only see 1/8 of the picture. For crying out load Sony Pictures, what the hell. Then the "creature" locks them in from the outside, then how the heck does he get in!!!!! Oh, also he has super human strength we are led to believe, because he can move boulders over 2 ton. What ever, its the biggest pile of crap I forced myself to watch for sometime, there is just that much wrong with it I could write a book. But why bother. You have been warned.

First of all, the rating "1" is far too much it should be "- 1Billion"."The cavern" is probably the worse movie I ever saw. It was a complete waste of my time. There is no suspense, no action, no lights and only silly shouting people. One cannot see anything at all for the whole movie length, a bit of light then a lot of darkness for the rest of the time.Did the writer, the producers, the actors, anybody from the team think they had a story to tell? What is the point of sending people to a cave and have them all killed by some kind of a very very hungry monster? They complain all the time their battery is almost empty but all keep both their lights on! They constantly shout that they have to be quiet... A very logical and well thought movie indeed!Moreover, they go to Kazakhstan, but say "russian" during the whole movie. It's not because you do not have money that you shouldn't know about your geography. And i don't think there are jungles in Kazakhstan.My best piece of advice : DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS CRAP!!!!