It draws you in while Sanctum jumps out at you and fails to do anything but irritate. The Descent is by no means a great film but you believe you are in a cave due to the darkness and the mood it creates. 3D doesn’t work and this film is another perfect example. The film is over lit in order to allow it to be 3D, because what’s the use of 3D if you can’t see much. It takes away believability and any sense of danger. The three scary things about cave diving is the claustrophobia, water and the darkness and the sets in this are way over lit. The biggest problem with the film is the lighting. Money has clearly been spent, for any film with copious amounts of water are expensive and also the sets look great, but the quality of the digital film looks like its made for television and so does the quality of the acting.Įveryone in the film overacts Richard Roxburgh snarls and puts on a gruff voice to play a tough man, Ioan Gruffudd who can be so good puts on an American accent and sounds ridiculous and the rest of the cast do act like they are in a soap opera. Sanctum suffers from many problems, one of the major ones is that it looks extraordinarily cheap, looking and sounding like a Home and Away holiday special. Cameron’s Avatar has a terrible script but he managed to make it enjoyable, however he did have a much larger budget. This is director Alister Grierson’s second film (his first being Kokoda, a film set in the WWII, which is far superior to his latest effort), but he can’t pull off what Cameron is able to do with a limited script. The posters for Sanctum have James Cameron’s name all over them, but don’t be fooled he did not direct this film he simply produced it. Sanctum is an Australian film that tells the story of cave divers who get caught in a cave after a storm and fight for survival as they try and escape.
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