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This movie entertains from start to finish. Are the characters "two dimensional"? To me not in any sense ha ha, yes the movie is 3D, lousy pun intended. But seriously, for two hours you are taken on a brutal subterranean adventure. I liked the fact that it IS believable. It isn't just action - it is a true human drama and shows the good and bad that can come from people in a life or death situation. And I didn't think it was predictable for the most part, anyway.

I am guessing that the reviewers just didn't like the characters, but that is no fault of the actors; the characters were quite realistic, which I considered a huge plus, while others might have preferred something else. But it sure seemed like something that could happen.

It isn't "The Black Swan". It isn't "True Grit". It won't be sweeping the Academy Awards. But was it entertaining and worth the price admission?

Without question - I actually found it more enjoyable and gripping than anything I have seen in some time. Highly recommended - give it a fair chance!

Details Edit. Release date February 4, United States. United States Australia. Official site Official site France. But now the boulders had choked the passageway that we had used. So it was a process over the next two days of exploring a new way out of the cave. And then our trapped companions would do the same from below. You make it sound so easy… If you had about another two hours, I could tell you an embellished version would be terrifying.

What did you learn about survival from that experience? The inspiration for the movie came from how the people responded after the collapse, how they worked together to survive. It was like in the Chilean mine disaster. If the community of people there started to break apart, irrespective of drilling holes in the earth and plucking them out to safety, they would have never survived.

And the same way, the people in the Nullarbor basically worked together to get through the issues of the group. And some of the people who you think would be the leaders at the forefront hunker down and become very quiet and accepting of their fate. How did you pull that off? My background is actually in agricultural science.

I worked in that capacity for nearly ten years. The cave diving was really just a hobby. The filmmaking actually started with the expedition when the cave collapsed. And that will pay for it? So that was my first film.

And had it not been for the cave collapse, it would have been pretty ordinary. So near-death launched your film career? Not this story: So we went to the cave, everyone got on really well, we dove until the end, and nothing happened. But for us, the cave collapsed! So the film that resulted from that was like, wow, really exciting.

But I also realized that I knew nothing about making films, so I better learn as much as I can. When did the 3-D interest enter the picture? That was when I met Jim, which was ten years ago now. Really he had just started embarking on this crusade to learn how to build cameras to film the world in 3-D. So I jumped on board and have been doing it ever since.

Now an action adventure movie? One character raises a middle finger. A minor character is briefly seen smoking. A major character brings a bottle of hard liquor down into the cave; characters occasionally drink from it during the movie's first third, but no one gets drunk.

Parents need to know that this intense 3-D adventure movie set in the world of cave diving was produced though not written or directed by James Cameron and feels very much like a smaller-scale version of one of his epics -- like Titanic and Avatar -- and is just as focused on spectacle. There's plenty of heavy language including many uses of "f--k" and "s--t" , and the violence includes fighting and blood, plus gruesome drownings and dead bodies -- all of which is amplified by the 3-D.

You can also expect some drinking and smoking and a little innuendo. Add your rating See all 11 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 16 kid reviews. A group of cave divers prepares to explore one of the world's biggest caves, perhaps becoming the first humans to discover a new underwater passage to the sea.

Unfortunately, a typhoon hits harder and faster than expected, stranding the five explorers inside and slowly filling the caves with water. Now they have no choice but to find their secret passage or die trying. And, indeed, the cave photography here is impressive -- but that's not enough to make the movie work. Most of the film's suspense depends on a real, natural human fear of drowning; but Buried and Hours play on similar fears to much better effect, with stronger characters and performances to boot.

Sometimes it's possible, as with Cameron's own Avatar , to overlook a movie's lack of human elements and enjoy the hugeness of the event as a pure cinematic rollercoaster ride, but Sanctum feels like too little, too late. Families can talk about the movie's violence.

Is it thrilling or disturbing? How does the movie achieve that reaction? Is this movie more or less scary than similar films that have clear "bad guys" -- or even monsters -- to confront? Is it necessary for people like the character of Frank to shut down their emotions in order to be expert explorers and survivors?

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Thank you for your support. Our ratings are based on child development best practices. We display the minimum age for which content is developmentally appropriate. The star rating reflects overall quality. Three team members follow many of the events from above on a large computer monitor. We only get reaction shots of them seeing it. Where does their screen image come from? Head-mounted web-cams? A cam in that submersible lighting device?

I dunno. How is the image transmitted? I doubt the cell-phone service is great in an underwater cave in New Guinea. Maybe they set up a LAN? How is it powered? They even complain about the batteries in their headlamps. One of these involves Frank and Josh. It has absolutely no need for 3-D. I wonder if people will go to "Sanctum" thinking the James Cameron name is a guarantee of high-quality 3-D. Here is a movie that can only harm the reputations of Cameron and 3-D itself.