The Descent: Part 2 (2010)

Wonderful character development!

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The Descent is a masterpiece of horror- It came out of nowhere and stunned audiences and critics alike. There was no doubt that a sequel had to be made and thus we have The Descent 2 which somehow carries on the legacy of the failed sequel. Yes, there is a cave and there are cave monsters but what is lacking is a soul. This film proves the importance of a deft hand behind the camera and a great screenplay. We still have the cave and the same monsters, yet this is a letdown of a movie.

******Spoilers below*******The only thing that wasn't realistic in this entire cave creature movie was that old hillbilly driving the tow truck. So Sarah runs to him in the road and he stopped for her and brought her to the police/hospital yet when he sees the deputy he pushes her back into the cave hole to feed the creatures? WTF? Why not just kill sarah too or bring her back to the hole?

I really liked the first movie, these days its pretty difficult to find a decent horror movie that actually keeps you interested and doesn't go overboard with the jump scares. But lets think about this, a girl has gone through something incredibly traumatic, covered in blood and hospitalized with amnesia, so what's the most logical thing we can do with this scenario? Yep, lets force her to go back into the cave and "retrace her steps" that she supposedly doesn't even remember and make her show the police what happened. Not only that, but the ending is like "WHY THE %&#( DID YOU DO THAT" when you realize a death could have been so, incredibly, easily avoided that it infuriates you. I mean, this wasn't really a bad film, but there are soooo many things that could have easily been changed to make it a million times better.

If, like me, you watched the original UK version of 'The Descent' you might have wondered how protagonist Sarah Carter could be in this one as well as the last time we saw her she was still deep underground surrounded by the crawlers… the producers clearly wanted at least one returning cast member so decided to follow on from the alternate US ending where she gets out of the caves.Set a couple of days after Sarah and her party went missing the rescue party is searching the wrong cave system; then she turns up covered in her friends blood but with no memory of what happened. Her trail is traced back to an old mine and a rescue party is sent in; they are accompanied by the local sheriff and his deputy as well as Sarah, who the sheriff is convinced killed her friends. They haven't been in the caves long when Sarah starts to have flashbacks and flees from the others. Soon afterwards a rock fall separates the group and not long after that they learn that they are not alone. The crawlers start picking them off and the terror of the first film starts to repeat itself as the survivors try get out of the caves before the crawlers can get to them.I had heard that this sequel was disappointing so put off watching it till I saw the DVD in the bargain bin… to be honest it isn't that bad and perhaps because I'd been prepared to be disappointed I ended up enjoying it more than I expected… that doesn't mean it is as good as the first; just better than it might have been. Once we have seen that Sarah did in fact survive the action quickly moves back underground and once there the tension remains high. The setting is just as claustrophobic as the first film and if anything the crawlers are even scarier. The level of gore has increased considerably with plenty of blood spilt every time anybody dies or in one case has his arm hacked off with a climbing pick! The weakness of this film is the characters; in the original we had a tight-knit, all-girl group of friends but here many of them don't know each other. The characters are also less sympathetic; this is especially true of the unlikeable sheriff whose actions repeatedly endanger everybody. There are a few twists along the way; some good (the reappearance of a familiar face, don't read the cast list before watching) and some rather poor (the ending). Overall I'd say this was decent enough; a little disappointing compared to the first but still better than many horror films.