20
Not only is the film dreadfully dull: every time something potentially exciting does occur, the scenes are so muddled and chaotic that it is impossible to make out what is happening.
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38
The screenplay is thin, the dialogue lacks nuance and the acting is often laughable.
40
"Alien" redux.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
It's increasingly hard to work up a fright on the screen these days, but even if The Cave doesn't exactly terrify, it's fun and looks great.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
A bottomless pit of lame characters, horror-film cliches and improbable monsters.
38
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
The writers supply character traits that seem to point toward a pay-off but never reach one. People all end up as tight-lipped, indistinguishable automatons who plummet 50 feet down jagged rocks with scarcely a scratch.
40
Refreshing strokes of science-fact in the early sections give way to action strictly from the Ridley Scott-James Cameron playbook, but without a powerful helmer behind the camera or a memorable cast in front.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
The utter lack of tension or suspense is as dumbfounding as Hunt's blender approach to editing, which purees action scenes into incoherent mashes of image confetti.