A little predictable in terms of plot events, for the most part, but not bad. It certainly made me feel claustrophobic, and reinforced my opinion that people who willingly go into caves are completely nuts. I had a bit of a hard time telling the women apart, too, except for Juno and Holly, due to similar sort of features and most of the movie being either flashlights or red flare lighting. The jumpscares were good, the sound design was very good (if annoying due to the jumpscares having huge spikes in sound and music usually), and the sets were great. Not a movie I'll rewatch, but not bad.
The part I don't understand is why Juno stabbing Beth in the throat by mistake was played by everyone as some sort of betrayal. It was an honest accident; you shouldn't sneak up on people in a cave full of monsters. I get Juno lying about it, but Beth being like "don't trust her"? And then Sarah stabbing Juno and leaving her to die because of it? Why?
And clearly the ending where Sarah makes it out just fine and then it turns out it was a dream and she was still in the cave isn't the canon ending, since there's a sequel. I admit, the story was just interesting enough for me to go watch that now, might as well.
Review by somnomaniaBlockedParent2021-08-16T20:43:26Z
A little predictable in terms of plot events, for the most part, but not bad. It certainly made me feel claustrophobic, and reinforced my opinion that people who willingly go into caves are completely nuts. I had a bit of a hard time telling the women apart, too, except for Juno and Holly, due to similar sort of features and most of the movie being either flashlights or red flare lighting. The jumpscares were good, the sound design was very good (if annoying due to the jumpscares having huge spikes in sound and music usually), and the sets were great. Not a movie I'll rewatch, but not bad.
The part I don't understand is why Juno stabbing Beth in the throat by mistake was played by everyone as some sort of betrayal. It was an honest accident; you shouldn't sneak up on people in a cave full of monsters. I get Juno lying about it, but Beth being like "don't trust her"? And then Sarah stabbing Juno and leaving her to die because of it? Why?
And clearly the ending where Sarah makes it out just fine and then it turns out it was a dream and she was still in the cave isn't the canon ending, since there's a sequel. I admit, the story was just interesting enough for me to go watch that now, might as well.