The film is billed as an action thriller, but a claustrophobic cave is very limited in the action and adventure come only when there is stress. It really is nothing more than a bad Blair Witch, but using a hand held camera it was shot on 3-D instead. So it is very slow, however.Directed : Alister Grierso.
Cast (in credits order):
- Richard Roxburgh. Frank Ioan Gruffudd ... Carl
- Rhys Wakefield ... Josh
- Alice Parkinson ... Victoria
- Dan Wyllie ... Crazy George
- Christopher Bake... J.D.
- Nicole Downs ... Liz
- Allison Cratchley... Judes
- Cramer Cain ... Luko
- Andrew Hansen ... Dex
- John Garvin ... Jim Sergeant
- Sean Dennehy ... Chopper Pilot
- Nea Diap ... Kastom Shaman
- Ben Browning .... producer
- James Cameron .... producer
- Leesa Kahn .... associate producer
- Ryan Kavanaugh.... producer
- Michael Maher .... producer
- Brett Popplewell .... line producer
- Peter Rawlinson .... producer
- Aaron Ryder .... co-producer
- Andrew Wight .... producer
Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh), a master cave divers who have been working underground in the South Pacific. His son, Josh (Rhys Wakefield) comes with the project financier, Carl (Ioan Gruffudd) Hurley and underground McGuire joined the team. Within hours, a tropical storm breaks, the rocks crumble around them, drain them off and Frank maze that lies between them and the rest of the world to lead his team out of the left.
The film with a lot of clunky exhibition starts. Josh told repeatedly that he is lucky that his father takes him on campaigns, and Josh answered that he does not want to be there. As father and son meet, but they are at loggerheads, fatally, we never learn what the real issue between them. It is clear that the way to work hard to Josh Frank is a little too sensitive, but it is far too simple to take a character, and us on a journey. With so little to work with, their relationship is painful and predictable, the time we get to the end, we know we're going to hear a "I am proud of you son" and a "I love you Daddy", which I officially have a spoiler, but everyone is going to think anyway, so it really does not count.
Basically, the six are trying to escape from their underground tomb is a story about people, and the only way it could work if we have an emotional connection at least some of them, even if it is negative. But the characters are like cardboard cut outs, no one likes or dislikes, and some accident of fate if they had all headlong into a cave two hundred feet, will not care dropped down.
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