Descente mortelle

Completely ruined for me by the bad, banal and meaningless English dubbing. Looks nice, acting seemed OK, camera work good and locations nice and I wanted to watch it but just couldn't. Maybe this would be better in Norwegian with subtitles but that dialogue was so bad, so not thought out at all that I couldn't finish watching it.

What the smell. Found this on a streaming site. Figured it would be worth a shoot Now I'm just amazed. Dont know what i just watched, feels like a high school movie project. Had to fast forward some sections, to embarrassing to watch. The movie starts of with some James Bond driving scene in the norwegian mountains. Next its a cabin horror movie in the woods. Then its Deliverance oh boy oh boy. From here everything goes south. The two male character turns out to be sosiopaths competing over the poor young lady. The director seemed to put a little bit out of every movie he has watched in to this little scare. And the result is like if you put every thing you like into a blender. You get some grey goo which doesn't taste that good.

This film isn't NEARLY as thrilling as the trailer makes it appear. Not even close! A couple and their old friend (her ex) go cave diving in attempt to find an exit to a cave. There isn't an exit indicated on the map... but this is what adventurous cave explorers do! OK cool!

Likes:

1. AWESOME scenery and cinematography.

2. The characters were really adventurous, smart, capable/experienced, and had a really cool background.

3. Overall it was a pretty intriguing set up (basically it started out good).

But when we talk about what's "waiting for them" deep beneath the ground? Well... not much. The trailer just uses good music and scenes to make you think this is a good thriller. But it's not.

Dislikes:

1. The couple was kind of annoying... well the guy was. They didn't have a lot of chemistry either.

2. A couple things happened that are only used to make you think something worse is coming... but nah. These incidents are either unrelated or they did a poor job of making the connection.

3. The third act was poor. After the second act there was still a chance for this to be a decent movie... but they completely dropped the ball here.

If you're at home and bored on a Saturday afternoon... go ahead and check it out... I wouldn't say it's a COMPLETE waste of time. Otherwise don't bother. This is not something I'd recommend.

Audio review... no spoilers ohttps://youtu.be/XToxIdMJxus @moviebuffchick1

When I first came across the description of this movie I thought it sounded something like "The Descent" - a movie I really enjoyed. I decided to watch it, thinking that it would be a poor copy of that movie. But it's not a copy. There are no monsters - just basically a love triangle between three people (two guys, one girl) who decide to explore some normally off-limits caves. With a diving element involved in this, I also thought it sounded a bit like "Sanctum" - which I also enjoyed. I suppose there are some loose similarities to both of those movies, but basically I was disappointed in this. It's a very short movie (under an hour and a half) - which might be the best thing about it, since you leave it behind at least knowing that you didn't waste too much of your time on it.

It's a Norwegian movie. I watched a version dubbed into English. That makes it somewhat difficult to offer an assessment of the cast - but none of them really stood out to me. It does manage to capture the claustrophobic environment of spelunking - but, then again, surely that isn't especially hard to capture. There really didn't seem to be a lot of chemistry between the three leads and the movie was neither especially tense (although there were a couple of moments) nor was it at all frightening. I'm not one who is big on long extended introductions to movies just for the purpose of establishing a backstory for the characters, but to be honest a little bit of that would have been helpful. As the movie goes on bits and pieces of this are revealed (so Charlotte, who's in a relationship with Adrian, used to be in a relationship with Viktor; and we find out that the three had apparently served together ion Afghanistan) but we don't really learn that much about them and by the time what we do learn begins to be revealed - well, to be honest I had kind of lost interest.

The movie's open-ended, suggesting the possibility of a sequel (which, in fact, is "promised" - or threatened?) in the closing captions. I won't be watching it. (4/10)

This was a really bad movie experience. With a meaningless brutal story as well as ending. What was the point?