'The Cave': If it looks like an 'Alien' rip-off, it is
by Christy Lemire
You're already thinking it so we're just going to say it and get it out of the way: The Cave looks like a rip-off of Alien, because that's what it is. It's also a paltry pastiche of Pitch Black and The Abyss (which were also rip-offs of Alien) and is available in a far more entertaining and enlightening fashion as a series of 3-D IMAX documentaries from James Cameron (who, coincidentally, directed the sequel to Alien as well as The Abyss — perhaps you're noticing a theme).
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A group of expert spelunkers is called in to try to find out what happened to the explorers who first explored a vast, previously unknown cave in Romania. But the group's escape route is cut off and they are hunted by the monstrous creatures that live down below.
Sony Pictures
'The Cave'
Director: Bruce Hunt
Starring: Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Cole Hauser, Piper Perabo, Lena Headey
Release date: August 26, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for intense creature violence.
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The Associated Press: D+
"In space, no one can hear you scream. No one can hear you scream in The Cave, either, but then again, no one cares."
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