Firstly, let's get the plot out of the way: As I said, Harris picks up right where Marshall left us all in the last one, with the one remaining member of the cave diving group, Sarah, having escaped the seemingly endless caves (we'll get to how that may or may not make sense, depending on what version you saw). Firstly, I need to disclose something. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Descent Part 2 [Blu-ray] at Amazon.com. With its back-and-forth plot pointing, illogical leaps in pragmatic believability, and a finale that flips a big fat middle finger at anyone who invested 90 minutes in this junk, The Descent 2 cannot hold a miner's candle to the original. The first-time director Jon Harris recreates the sense of airless, claustrophobic panic that worked so effectively the first time around and cranks up the yuck factor exponentially. Write a review. Copyright © Fandango. No one expected 'Part 2' to rival the original, but it delivers a fair number of scares while replicating the eerie tension from the first film. Well, she obviously loses her memory of everything that happened (typical...) and so doesn't refuse as you'd logically expect. The second element of the first film that is squandered here is the more general fact that it was an all female cast, something that you don't often see in movies these days, particularly horrors. The film then falls back on hacking away at a skull or arm (take your pick from all body parts) in an attempt to get scares. Unfortunately for Sarah, everyone else outside of the caves only have the information to go on that six women went down into the caves but only one came out, and needless to say Sarah becomes a suspect to the local law enforcement. Unfortunately for The Descent: Part 2, the loud jumps that did come weren't strong enough to shake me in any way, as, for the most part (like so much of the film), they were fairly well sign posted. Release Date: December 2, 2009. But the sequel chooses to COMPLETELY ignore that (not even a mention or hint anywhere as far as I could see) and go with the U.S. ending that she did escape in the end. All rights reserved. It had been one of those days that started badly and ended the same way. Chuck Bowen. 4 out of 5. Follow. But in the interest of taking up useless e-space, I'll continue. The Descent 2 starts off were the last movie left off at, dumber and more nonsensical then ever. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy They finally come to the conclusion that they need to go down to the caves to look for the rest of her party of women, taking Sarah with them as both their "guide" and to keep an eye on her as a suspect. He is a fan of all types of cinema from drama to action, comedy to western, thriller to sci-fi and almost everything else in between (although he has a general dislike for most musicals and romantic comedies). MyMovies_UK. He cites some of his favorite movies as Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Psycho and Mulholland Drive but finds himself annoyingly garnering new favorites almost every other week. Harris' inexperience as a director (although he's plenty experienced as an editor) really shows during the scenes of attack from the Crawlers (as the monsters/creatures are known) when the camera is shaky. A lot of the time it's obvious when the jumps are coming, but there were a few times when it worked quite well. Rating: R . So unlike the ladies in the first movie, the rescue team takes the easy way down. To say the least The Descent 2 is still scary and gory, but overall the original was more entertaining than this sequel. Harris's direction is messy, favouring confusing set-piece scares over the all-important group dynamics. Shauna Macdonald ("Mutant Chronicles") returns as Sarah, continuing the story of 2005's hugely successful horror thriller "The Descent", in which a group of young women disappear during a caving trip in the Appalachian Mountains. Il s'agit de la suite de The Descent de Neil Marshall (2005). Découvrez la critique du film The Descent : Part 2 de Jon Harris (II) - Modèle d'efficacité et référence du genre des années 2000, The Descent raconte aussi comment So with the help of a local man who discovered Sarah panicked on the side of the road, there's magically another way down to the caves other than where the group of women first entered - a shaft that leads down to some mines that are directly adjacent to the caves. He describes himself as a writer and a fan, a fan and a writer - but not always in that order. The first of the two elements that helped make The Descent so great was the claustrophobic feeling of the cave setting. The tight spaces and endless darkness creeped the hell out of me the first time around, but the new director here just isn't able to capture the same kind of dread without resorting to blood and gore. [Full review in Spanish]. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password.