hyped garbage

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Anthony Waller applies his coruscating wit and insight to a horrific story involving a drilling project that breaks through to the very chambers of Hell itself. This is a quite powerful film, well written, intelligent, and deeply disturbing. Based upon a fake urban legend that purported to announce that a Siberian mission to drill nine miles down had discovered Hell and the cries of the suffering souls could be heard over microphones lowered into the earth, the motion picture expands and enhances that scenario. The imagery is haunting and the location shooting creates an environment of overwhelming dread and stunning intensity. As a film, it breaks through the conventions of the horror genre and provides gripping evidence that the existence of evil, if not Hell, is all too real.

Wow what a piece of garbage. I guess this was suppose to be a scary psychological type thriller. It missed by a mile. The female lead is a good looking, computer altered at times character. She is obviously a desert spirit of a past time, that is of course evil. The site where all the action takes place is a science site looking for I am not sure what. Every one is dead except for the spirit when the investigator shows up to guess what(?) investigate of all things. There are all kinds of dream sequences and nightmares that the investigator goes through but in the end who cares? This movie was as poorly done as any SyFy original movie that I have seen.

Watching NINE MILES DOWN for its cover and synopsis, you may find yourself a tad disappointed. Still, the acting is good and the cinematography sophisticated, with a few nice twists and surprises. There is also some interesting play on the "Hell is in your head" theme.Much of the first half is just blabbing between Security Officer Thomas Jackman and Dr. Jennie "J.C." Christianson (get it?), who are the only characters we see on a regular basis. Nevertheless, some of the blabbing's quite meaningful and interesting. As NINE MILES DOWN progresses, we get a number of standard horror flick hallucinations and nightmares, confusion and vagary, blood and zombie imagery. There are some other, fairly unexpected complications which I won't give away. This film also shows a lot of booty (both hers and his).Definitely worth seeing if you're a big supernatural horror fan--just don't expect it to make too much sense.Warning: May be rather (or very) misogynistic, depending on how one interprets certain things.

Well I don't know why others have panned this excellent flick. I went through it without once having the desire to fast-forward. Watched every bit of it and enjoyed it very much. I don't know, maybe you have to be a psychologist and a phenomenologist to dig this movie but I found it very gripping and a rather neat look at paranoid ideation. A man suffering from intense guilt because his wife went mad and murdered her children and then killed herself, becomes exposed to a toxic environment and himself goes mad with tragic results. I look upon the hallucinatory segments as metaphor in so far as it is difficult to describe paranoid ideation in a compact manner. If this were a real "case" we would spend weeks or even months unravelling this man's behavior to learn what complex thoughts he was having when he went insane. The film context allows us to compress this analysis to a series of visual allusions. It worked for me. Clearly not for others.