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U.S., Germany 2005
Director: Bruce Hunt
Cast: Cole Hauser, Lena Headey, Piper Perabo, Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut, Rick Ravanello
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 26th 2005
Running Time: 1 hour 33 minutess
The Movie Review
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Some people like to do extreme sports, a kind of sport that surely amazes its spectators in a different level. Hollywood then sees it as an opportunity to make an interesting movie out of it, and some of them are actually breath-taking, for example Vertical Limit. Probably the main idea of those films is to make an extreme situation out of an already-extreme sports, that's great. But some of them arguably have a different opinion of an extreme situation, like "how about putting some monster-like creature in it?" And voila, we got The Cave.
In the secluded Romanian mountains, a team of experts in cave-diving lead by Jack McAllister (Cole Hauser) is getting an order from a professor, Dr. Nicolai, to help him discover a new ecosystem deep inside the newly-discovered cave. Everything goes according to the agenda, when one of them get snatched by an unknown creature that apparently have been living there for a long time without any contact to the sun at all. The team is trapped inside a cave a mile below the surface and three miles in, in the Carpathians (which means, a huge structure of nature) and being lurked by these creatures, could they ever get out of that place in one piece?
The cave, in my opinion, is a spelunking (cave-diving sport) gone awry. After watching the movie, I really wished that the premise stick to the survival instinct of a human being in facing the hostile environment rather than facing monsters. It's not that the premise is bad, it's just silly. It feels like everything is a mess, jumping around here and there, sneaking around here and there, while avoiding a monster that's most appropriately should be called the fishman. Everything is too comical, and added that lighting is bad, yeah yeah I realize that it's inside the cave, but being too dark has changed the atmosphere from terrifying to irksome.
The good side is while the story is silly but it has a quite steady pace so that you could follow the story clearly. The actors and actresses that are populating this monster movie perform solid as well. The cave probably still be appealing if we could overlook everything brainy (except for the fact that the some creatures in the dark indeed blind), and then simply just enjoy its ridiculous horror.
The Cave is being too serious for its silly story but too comically scary for its horror. If there had been a comic book about the Cave, which would've been probably more awesome to enjoy.
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
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