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First, I reveal some story twists, so spoilers ahead...
This film is a cave movie with potential (if not realizing it fully and failing/falling short a bit... but this film was made on a smaller budget, so we have to give it credit for accomplishing it with much less financial means and on a smaller production crew, just like with Indie foreign art films). The first thing you notice is the breathtaking imagery of the mountainous Norway scenery, the camera and the camera lens used in this film are truly high resolution : the image is very clear and the colors/contrast very deep and rich; this creates an image, to the eye, that is truly ''popping'' with camera depth of field; and thus immerses you-in/pulls you-in, it's eye candy. The story revolves around 3 friends, of war (former soldiers), getting back together and wanting to do something extreme together (cave spelunking). Their relationship dynamic is a couple with an ex boyfriend who later becomes jealous of his ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend, and wants to get back with his ex-girlfriend : the current boyfriend is in his way ... so he intends to kill him (and he will, he will kill him in the cave faking an accidental death, until it becomes clear to her that he is the murderer (drowned him and then, cracked his neck), she in turn will kill him out of vengeance for killing her current boyfriend). Sort of a discord love triangle at play.
The ex boyfriend watches sexual scenes of the couple making sex and fantasizes to get back with her. The rest of the film concentrates on them descending in the cave, it is exhilarating and thrilling, but not scary, just slightly tense. It has long drawn out moments of dead time that hinders its potential and some hand-held camera movements that hurt the lacking cinematography. The sound work is descent but nothing special, it's very mild in feeling like a light popcorn movie to watch on a Sunday evening with nothing to do, that could be more. The largest lackluster flaws : We can't even see their eyes in the cave, the cave is nice but some areas are bland, it's flat dull compared to the films The Cave/The Descent, the film drags on with sex scenes, we just can't ''connect'' enough to care of the characters' plight (whether they die or not makes no difference), the antagonism is quite low (besides the frustrated ex boyfriend), the cave almost seems inviting like a Tourist cave - it makes for a good Norway scenery pamphlet tourist ad. Still, there is potential if you don't go-in with extremely high hopes. A nice first cave opus for a young-able director.
I give a 7.5/10.
First, I reveal some story twists, so spoilers ahead...
This film is a cave movie with potential (if not realizing it fully and failing/falling short a bit... but this film was made on a smaller budget, so we have to give it credit for accomplishing it with much less financial means and on a smaller production crew, just like with Indie foreign art films). The first thing you notice is the breathtaking imagery of the mountainous Norway scenery, the camera and the camera lens used in this film are truly high resolution : the image is very clear and the colors/contrast very deep and rich; this creates an image, to the eye, that is truly ''popping'' with camera depth of field; and thus immerses you-in/pulls you-in, it's eye candy. The story revolves around 3 friends, of war (former soldiers), getting back together and wanting to do something extreme together (cave spelunking). Their relationship dynamic is a couple with an ex boyfriend who later becomes jealous of his ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend, and wants to get back with his ex-girlfriend : the current boyfriend is in his way ... so he intends to kill him (and he will, he will kill him in the cave faking an accidental death, until it becomes clear to her that he is the murderer (drowned him and then, cracked his neck), she in turn will kill him out of vengeance for killing her current boyfriend). Sort of a discord love triangle at play.
The ex boyfriend watches sexual scenes of the couple making sex and fantasizes to get back with her. The rest of the film concentrates on them descending in the cave, it is exhilarating and thrilling, but not scary, just slightly tense. It has long drawn out moments of dead time that hinders its potential and some hand-held camera movements that hurt the lacking cinematography. The sound work is descent but nothing special, it's very mild in feeling like a light popcorn movie to watch on a Sunday evening with nothing to do, that could be more. The largest lackluster flaws : We can't even see their eyes in the cave, the cave is nice but some areas are bland, it's flat dull compared to the films The Cave/The Descent, the film drags on with sex scenes, we just can't ''connect'' enough to care of the characters' plight (whether they die or not makes no difference), the antagonism is quite low (besides the frustrated ex boyfriend), the cave almost seems inviting like a Tourist cave - it makes for a good Norway scenery pamphlet tourist ad. Still, there is potential if you don't go-in with extremely high hopes. A nice first cave opus for a young-able director.
I give a 7.5/10.