Adverised as James Cameron's Sanctum (he is the Executive Producer) this is essentially a 'painting by numbers' story of the relationship between teenage angst ridden son anxious to find himself and the emotionally retarded father trying - but always failing - to put matters right.
Set in a caving peril backdrop it is lazily directed and the actors seem only to be going through the motions. Full of one-dimensional stock characters that we have seen before in dozens of this sort of film (the faithful native servant, the loud-mouth wealthy American financier, the honourable buddy, the woman determined to outdo the men in a man's world etc etc) its only redeeming feature lies in being proved right in working out the order in which each character meets their demise (its really quite easy). The dialogue is laughable, the acting is woeful, the story line is as predictable as the top four in the Premier League and lacking the tension of a Thomas the Tank Engine plot the film lumbers along its all too wearisome 108 minutes of tedium. I'd rather sit through a month of Matins than watch this.
The plot has our protagonists exploring the deepest cave in the world in the middle of a storm (the words forecast and weather spring to mind) until there's only one left (in the audience). Oh and by the way it's shot in 3D - what a waste.
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