Rotten
Fright-wise, The Cave is a dry hole.
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly
The Cave
There are places man was never meant to go.
2005 · 1h 37m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Bruce Hunt
Overview
After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While exploring deeper into the underwater caves, a rockslide blocks their exit, and they soon discover a larger carnivorous creature has added them to its food chain.
Director and cast
- Bruce Hunt Director
- Cole Hauser as Jack McAllister
- Eddie Cibrian as Tyler McAllister
- Morris Chestnut as Top Buchanan
- Lena Headey as Dr. Kathryn Jennings
- Piper Perabo as Charlie
- Rick Ravanello as Briggs
- Daniel Dae Kim as Alex Kim
- Kieran Darcy-Smith as Strode
- Marcel Iureș as Dr. Nicolai
- Vlad Rădescu as Dr. Bacovia
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
12%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp.
Dennis Lim, Village Voice
Rotten
The Cave isn't just a bad movie, it's a very, very, very bad movie, so bad that it can't even redeem itself by turning into high camp.
Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post
Rotten
Feels stunningly familiar as it goes through the rote edicts of the scientific crew vs. toothy beastie formula.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Rotten
Somewhere deep beneath the Carpathian mountains, something unholy stirs: It's an unspeakable stinker of a movie called The Cave.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
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