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Judy Chia Hui Hsu, Seattle Times: The Cave is an over-the-top horror flick with one novel offering: It's shot amid a stunning network of subterranean caverns. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: A claustrophobic horror film that provides nothing original beyond its underground setting. Read more
Kathy Cano Murillo, Arizona Republic: Despite the occasional chuckles of embarrassment for what the cast (including Morris Chestnut, Piper Perabo, and Eddie Cibrian) must endure, The Cave is a dead end. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The Cave answers every question I've ever had about what might happen when a handful of hotties head deep inside the earth. For starters, the middle-aged and intelligent die early. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Most everyone in the audience, except those rendered unconscious by boredom, will see the 'big twist' plot turn coming well in advance, although the qualifiers 'big' and 'twist' seem overblown and inexact. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Fright-wise, The Cave is a dry hole. Read more
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: Bruce Hunt's directing debut displays a cold-blooded efficiency and refreshing lack of Michael Bay-ish hyperactivity in what is otherwise a solid if unspectacular action-horror flick. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Vast and unexplainable, with plenty of places to hide. You'll want to find one. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The Cave is a rare find, a film that is pure formula, yet impossible to follow. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The makers of The Cave must have conceived their plot by Googling 'creature features' and 'recipes for monster mash.' Read more
Laura Kern, New York Times: The first-time director Bruce Hunt is no stranger to inspired and stylish productions, but his horror-action film fails to inject new life into tired territory. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Why would anybody go in The Cave? Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Ten things I learned watching The Cave. 1. 'Beneath heaven lies hell. Beneath hell lies the cave.' 2. Beneath that lies the theater showing The Cave. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The Cave has a brisk B-movie efficiency, and not much space for bad acting, but it is blatantly derivative -- Alien or Predator in a cave. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Somewhere deep beneath the Carpathian mountains, something unholy stirs: It's an unspeakable stinker of a movie called The Cave. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: 'Something's not right here,' proclaims one of the characters exploring the creepy depths of The Cave. We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Feels stunningly familiar as it goes through the rote edicts of the scientific crew vs. toothy beastie formula. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp. Read more
Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post: 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. Read more