Awesome Movie

An Exercise In Nonsense

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Richard Pepin, a man well known in B-movie circles for his role as producer and director in the genre since the early 1980s, directs this Sci-Fi Channel nonsense about a group of robbers who enter a long abandoned mine in search of a cave filled with valuable emeralds. Along they way they rope in an innocent explorer and his family to act as their guide and inevitably all hell breaks loose.CAVED IN comes across as a cheap and rubbishy variation on the likes of THE CAVE, SANCTUM, and THE DESCENT, although it isn't as effective as any of those movies. The reason is that there are just too many preposterous elements in the story for it to either make sense or feel remotely believable.The main draw in this movie are the monsters, some nasty giant beetles which are animated via some not-bad CGI (for the most part). So far so straightforward, but then the writers had to add in some STAR WARS style laser weaponry which just comes across as silly. They should have instead focused more on making the menace more realistic instead of going down the sci-fi route.There's some rubbery gore on display here, but also a lot of bad acting. The lead is played by Christopher Atkins, who made his debut in THE BLUE LAGOON all those years back, but he's pretty wooden these days. Colm Meaney is somehow along for the ride, but the worst of the bunch is the whiny, irritating Chelan Simmons, whose character automatically drags the enjoyment factor down a notch. A shame as at the outset this has definite potential to be something interesting.

far to be awful, it is only expression of good intentions without a credible script. good occasion to rediscover Christopher Atkins and few good Romanian actors - Adrian Pintea , Cristian Popa and, sure, Monica Birladeanu- in too small roles,the old story of huge animal danger and search of treasure, bad guys and admirable heroes, it is predictable, unrealistic and too long. part of a long series of mediocre Sci Fi/horror movies, it can be nice entertainment for action fans.only bad thing - the ignored possibilities of story. but that is only an insignificant detail. because the virtue is the decent performance of ...insects.

In all honesty, I was not expecting much from this movie, seeing as it was SyFy, but there are some decent actors here so I went ahead. I found Caved In to be a lame movie in most respects, but nowhere near the worst SyFy's done. The only reasons why I didn't rate it any lower are three quite good performances from Angela Featherstone(the best of the cast in my opinion), Christopher Atkins and Marius Chivros. The rest of the cast are bad, Colm Meaney doesn't have much to do and spends the whole movie looking lost or bored and Chelan Simmons is incredibly annoying, doing little more than screaming and other shrill antics. The actors aren't helped by the underdeveloped and stereotypical way their characters are written, or by the clichéd script and the formulaic story that further suffers from lack of tension and suspense and too many scenes to list that were unbelievable. Add to that lighting that distracted from the atmosphere and the setting's authenticity, with scenes being lit too brightly where it should have a dark, claustrophobic feel, and (even for SyFy) terrible artificial-looking effects, and you have a pretty poor movie. Overall, other than three performances, Caved In is not worth bothering with. 3/10 Bethany Cox

I was at Hollywood video one day, and they had this big sale going on, so I bought quit a bit of movies. I was looking and I came across this. I looked at it and though, it looked "okay", not good, but okay. I also didn't know it was a TV movie (or sci-fi channel movie either). So, I bought the movies, came home, and I think I watched this one first. I could not believe what I was watching.. .utter crap. This movie was so bad it was funny (and, slightly fun, but not enough to like the movie). I couldn't believe the CGI effects, it was laughable to the extreme. And like most cheap horror films, the gore was over-the-top, and so was the acting (which also is really amateur). This was definitely without a doubt one of the worst movies ever made, not even sure how it got made to begin with. I rate it 3/10 (somewhat generous). Rated R for horror violence and gore