 A still from the movie More Pics  | Critic's Rating: ** Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Richard Roxburg, Alice Parkinson, Rhys Wakefield Direction: Alister Grierson Genre: Adventure Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes Readers Rating: **  |
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Story: The film explores the adventures of a bunch of underwater cave divers who undertake an expedition to Esa-Ala, one of the most treacherous and unexplored cave systems in the South Pacific. The explorers must survive a deathly flash flood which cuts off all their escape routes. So, what's the casualty list going to look like?
Movie Review: The tag line says this one's from the maker of Titanic and Avatar. Don't be duped. There isn't anything about the film that has the stamp of James Cameron, billed as the executive producer of the film. Was Cameron on holiday, scuba diving in the Bahamas while the film was being shot in the Esa-Ala? And that too in 3-D, which again is a ruse. Nothing pops and jumps at you, not even the adventurers who happily take the bottomless drop into the abyss.
The film follows the tried and tested formula of a disaster movie, where everything is predictable: the deaths, the accidents, the squabbles and the survivor spirit. The only spark in this grim-dim drama is the dysfunctional father-son relationship between ruthless explorer Frank McGuire and his disgruntled son Josh. There, in the midst of approaching doom, the duo share a Kodak moment and set aside all their acrimony to hug and make up after a heartfelt confessional.
Touching, but not enough to give you the requisite adrenalin rush
Movie Review: The tag line says this one's from the maker of Titanic and Avatar. Don't be duped. There isn't anything about the film that has the stamp of James Cameron, billed as the executive producer of the film. Was Cameron on holiday, scuba diving in the Bahamas while the film was being shot in the Esa-Ala? And that too in 3-D, which again is a ruse. Nothing pops and jumps at you, not even the adventurers who happily take the bottomless drop into the abyss.
The film follows the tried and tested formula of a disaster movie, where everything is predictable: the deaths, the accidents, the squabbles and the survivor spirit. The only spark in this grim-dim drama is the dysfunctional father-son relationship between ruthless explorer Frank McGuire and his disgruntled son Josh. There, in the midst of approaching doom, the duo share a Kodak moment and set aside all their acrimony to hug and make up after a heartfelt confessional.
Touching, but not enough to give you the requisite adrenalin rush
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