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Rich Bonaduce reviews “Sanctum”

Rich’s Quickie: During an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world, an underwater cave diving team gets trapped in a movie with lots of silly parts that undermine the whole.

Being promoted as brought to you by “James Cameron; creator of Titanic and Avatar” (when he is actually only one of nine producers), Sanctum certainly has many earmarks of a Cameron-fest; it’s shot in 3D (Avatar), a team of folks have to band together to survive and get picked off one by one (Aliens), it’s underwater… and there’s a storm coming… and it arrives much earlier than expected forcing the folks below to fend for themselves since the rest of the team above must retreat (The Abyss, The Abyss, and The Abyss). Unfortunately, Richard Roxburgh is the only one who makes it out of this thing “alive,” as most of the other actors were alternately stiff or over the top. The 3D is fine, but the movie itself them is so forced in the first two acts, and just plain silly in the third, that I couldn’t wait for the water to rise. The only redeemable aspects are the action sequences.

Movie Grade: C-

Rated R for language, some violence and disturbing images.

Director: Alister Grierson
Writers: John Garvin (screenplay), Andrew Wight (screenplay/story)

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