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MOVIE REVIEW This week's reviewed movie is: Sanctum |
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| Sanctum
is set in New Guinea, where a handful of explorers trapped after a
monster storm floods the largest unexplored cave system in the world. It's based on an almost-true story filled with the latest high tech diving gear, and the oldest plot formula in the movie's playbook. It's full of stomach-clenching moments and focuses on limits of how far you can push the human body. What sold me on this story (and makes it a more believable film) is there are no supernatural demons or monsters to deal with -- just nature. I can buy that. |
Nothing can sell a film quite like
sticking James Cameron's name on it, and apparently this holds true
even if all you are doing is borrowing his underwater cameras. This overblown disaster film,
complete with stereotypical characterizations, has beautiful
photography and some of the worst dialogue ever uttered on film. Yes, 2-dimensional characters in a 3-D world! It's poorly edited with virtually no
continuity and playing more like melodrama than suspense, it proves
"3-D does not a movie make." |
The movie Sanctum
is a dire situation thriller with difficulties associated around simple
survival in impossible circumstances. The problems start when man tries to take on nature. Suddenly, a rainstorm turns into a race to outrun rising waters in underground caverns. The survival struggle then becomes very dangerous when the group of five lead characters are trapped by flood members deep beneath the Earth in New Guinea's caves. All interpersonal conflicts, and there are many, then become secondary to finding an escape route before rising waters cut off any chance of staying alive. The film is predictable but filled with tension and based on a true experience. |
