Xibalba

Not much action. Not much horror. Not much suspense. Some interesting locations, but the movie is slow, the plot weak, characters shallow. Minimal background and history. An hour in, little had happened. As another reviewer mentioned, they're supposed to be top expert divers. They don't use rebreathers. I was uncomfortable listening to them jabber in underwater caves when one would be conserving air. It should have been silent with captivating underwater footage. The dialogue foreshadows what's to come. I wanted to be drawn in more than I was. I ended up just wondering if I wanted to see the end or not. All the suspense was in the last 20 minutes. Super cheesy. It got so ridiculous at the end, I couldn't take it. Just another greedy white man with no respect for the culture of others. Skip this and watch The Abyss!

Low budget is not a curse untill it meets low scriptwriting, confusing shooting and editing, hilarious dialogues, sound probably recorded on Nokia 3310 and... well THAT acting. Actually this movie is quiet a masterpiece. You can show it to a film school students as an example how do NOT make movies.

It's definitely a SyFy Channel wannabe, but actually with a far better plot and cinematography. The biggest con is it takes forever to truly get to the action with the "aliens". While the build up is decent it lacks energy. The direction and story building is there but the actors for the most part seem to just go through the actions. The fact that the build up takes so long and you invest in watching for a payoff the payoff comes slate and leaves the movie open as if this were a pilot or the beginning of a series of movies and with the premise used. Sadly, because of that the ending was empty as a standalone.

It could have been a good movie with a better script. Also the aliens were so stupid looking it could have been a comedy. I don't think saying the aliens were a joke is a spoiler even if they spoiled the movie.

...unfortunately this one gets worse by the minute from around 40min onwards, until the agonizingly boring and pointless crescendo of the last 16min when you wish it could end sooner.

This is not made up to drag it down, just my thoughts while enduring this, hoping it would somehow pickup and suddenly get a turn to the positive (entertaining film-making).

All in all there were many potential opportunities to make this better, into an entertaining horror flick a la the descent, or with romance, action, artefacts and humor like the ol'classic romancing the stone, or pure short paced action a la Tomb Raider, Raiders of the lost arc or Uncharted. No, this one just got lamer by the minute. Yes I got the idea what the writers got in mind, and appreciate the attempted twist of mayan prophecy and the connection to the world at present day, but - it simply failed to entertain.

(the most shocking sequence and proof of a lack of idea? Was a backflash to a 40s conversation between the main protagonists about the evil beings, just a few minutes earlier in the film. How boring can something get when you are already bored)

All in all I dont write many negative reviews, just vote, but this annoyed me a bit. Have to watch something better now.