An uninspired retread of a horror classic, this tries hard to justify its existence... and fails.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2009

Harris's direction is messy, favouring confusing set-piece scares over the all-important group dynamics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

It's efficient, and workmanlike enough, but the spark of inspiration that won fans for the first film seems to me pretty much gone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2009

The last half-hour is a tense team scramble to get out, and stay out, but the best move in this above-par shocker is digging right back into the claustrophobic emotional traumas which made Part 1 so thrilling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

At one point they even clamber over the corpses of the original film's victims to get to safety. It's not, on reflection, a bad metaphor for the entire enterprise.

| Dec 4, 2009

Competent film-making renders the film watchable but it's silly in essence and there's nothing the cast can do about that, however hard they scream.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2009

Even acknowledging its flimsy credibility and recycled stalk-and-seize tropes, I still jumped out of my seat a couple of times, so the film-makers can probably give themselves a pat on the back: job done.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2009

If you've watched The Descent already, you won't get anything new out of this. And if you've not watched The Descent already, just watch The Descent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2009

As popcorn entertainment, it delivers, and should satisfy fans on all platforms.

Full Review | May 17, 2009