In-your-face movie review: The Cave
Try watching this movie alone, in a seedy-looking movie theater with only a handful of audience, on a rainy night. Wear a jacket, but not the warm, fleecey type. Wear one with a thin material, wherein the cold can still seep through. If you're claustrophobic or you entirely hate dark, enclosed spaces, and seemingly-unending underground tunnels, so much the better.
This movie reminded me of a book called The Descent by Jeff Long (which was said to be adapted into a movie in the UK, although I'm not so sure given the synopsis, wherein the only thing the movie and the book -- and The Cave -- had in common were monsters living underground and humans being mutated by bacteria infecting open wounds).
If you fancy an inspiration to do extreme sports like scuba diving, spelunking, and rock climbing -- aside from being snatched by monsters in the dark -- this movie's for you.
Spoiler! I thought Piper Perabo was gonna be like the mascot / scream queen of the movie who strutted around in a tank top and shorts in an underground cave, but no -- she was able to kill one of them albino-skinned mutated bat-like creatures -- before getting killed herself. So her death was actually honorable.
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