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Mads Sjøgård Pettersen in Cave (2016)

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Cave

42 reviews
4/10

If you have some time you want too waste...

The script is predictable, slow at times, the acting inadequate. But the filming and location was good. The film is ok, I saw it through.... but I am no fan of cliffhangers.
  • kirstilavold
  • Apr 4, 2018
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3/10

The trailer is better than the movie

This film isn't NEARLY as thrilling as the trailer makes it appear. Not even close! A couple and their old friend (her ex) go cave diving in attempt to find an exit to a cave. There isn't an exit indicated on the map... but this is what adventurous cave explorers do! OK cool!

Likes:

1. AWESOME scenery and cinematography.

2. The characters were really adventurous, smart, capable/experienced, and had a really cool background.

3. Overall it was a pretty intriguing set up (basically it started out good).

But when we talk about what's "waiting for them" deep beneath the ground? Well... not much. The trailer just uses good music and scenes to make you think this is a good thriller. But it's not.

Dislikes:

1. The couple was kind of annoying... well the guy was. They didn't have a lot of chemistry either.

2. A couple things happened that are only used to make you think something worse is coming... but nah. These incidents are either unrelated or they did a poor job of making the connection.

3. The third act was poor. After the second act there was still a chance for this to be a decent movie... but they completely dropped the ball here.

If you're at home and bored on a Saturday afternoon... go ahead and check it out... I wouldn't say it's a COMPLETE waste of time. Otherwise don't bother. This is not something I'd recommend.

Audio review... no spoilers ohttps://youtu.be/XToxIdMJxus @moviebuffchick1
  • moviebuffchick
  • May 31, 2017
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3/10

Both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised

I caught this on Netflix, I was drawn in by the premise and the 4 3/4 out of 5 stars on Netflix (I always wonder what that means).

At first I was thrown off by the dubbing, the dialogue was obviously dubbed in English, which seemed strange since I was looking at 3 Anglo-looking European or American actors, but I eventually figured out that they were Scandinavian of some variety.

To get right to it, the story and plot wasn't great and it was pretty stilted at times but I have to say the cinematography, scenes, shots, lighting, and backgrounds were truly spectacular (seriously). It was like watching an episode of Planet Earth or the Discovery channel. I don't know anything about cameras or film making but the scenes were beautiful and captivating.

There was very little plot or background, I guess the 3 characters were supposed to be ex- soldiers on an adventure. They looked like, respectively, a soldier, a soccer mom, and someone who works in a brewery. But hey they are all attractive enough and really I thought the acting was pretty good, given what they had to work with. There was no chemistry, or like negative chemistry, between the two characters that were a couple, but maybe that was part of the point. I think the entire movie had just 3 actors.

This could have been a tense thriller like Blair Witch or Descent which is maybe what they set out to do but after a bunch of build up, without mentioning any spoilers, the whole story was a bit of a let down and not much to it (but shot in beautiful scenes). In retrospect the story is probably a lot more realistic in terms of what would actually happen in a situation like that but you go into the movie expecting ghouls or supernatural monsters or whatever so it's kind of a let down.

I ended the movie pretty disappointed but there were definitely some unexpected bright spots, I'll be looking for the actors and director in other movies. It just seems like they had a good idea and they lost all of their funding 1/3 the way into the movie or something.
  • UncleLongHair2
  • Jun 28, 2017
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2/10

Don't waste your time

  • romneymeredith
  • Jun 18, 2017
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1/10

Worst

  • compugor
  • Mar 23, 2019
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1/10

Terrible.

Predictable. Waste of time. No plot so cannot give spoiler.
  • kag-01371
  • Jul 5, 2018
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2/10

Skip this and watch "Sanctum"

  • beusbeus
  • Jun 19, 2017
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1/10

Horrible

The writing is awful and the characters are very stupid. A complete waste of time.
  • Picklelover-19091
  • Jul 21, 2019
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Worst movie I have ever seen

I was fooled by the beautiful scenery of snowy mountains in the beginning and wasted precious time watching this rubbish. Felt angry at the stupidity
  • seusabah
  • Apr 16, 2020
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7/10

Nice Cave movie.

  • oaspag-71318
  • Feb 4, 2017
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2/10

A big tease that is extremely boring

  • Wizard-8
  • Aug 18, 2018
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10/10

The best movie ever!

  • Horrorfan77
  • Dec 1, 2018
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6/10

Decent adventure-thriller

Three friends - Adrian, Charlotte and Viktor - head out into the Norwegian wilderness to explore a cave. They are all experienced at this sort of thing and have planned well. Relationship issues - Charlotte is with Adrian but she and Viktor used to be a couple and he still has feelings for her - complicate the expedition. Moreover, someone seems to be following them, even in the cave.

Reasonably interesting. The cave scenes are well shot and are suitably claustrophobic. Quite intriguing and tense, especially towards the end. Good plot twist too.

Decent, but not great though. The relationship side was clumsily handled and there are one or two plot developments that don't make much sense, or could at least do with a bit of explanation.
  • grantss
  • Jul 7, 2017
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1/10

Not As Advertised And The Bad Writing Doesn't Help.

  • Tai_MT
  • Oct 2, 2017
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1/10

Wish I hadnt seen it

This was a really bad movie experience. With a meaningless brutal story as well as ending. What was the point?
  • hilde-107-156740
  • Feb 13, 2020
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1/10

Terrible, terrible, awful

Was scanning titles and put this one without checking IMDb first. The acting was awful, the plot nonexistent. Seems like there was no effort into putting this movie together. Maybe it was a way for an investor to purposely lose some money for tax reasons? It made no sense whatsoever and the only reason I kept watching it was because I was expecting something to happen. Even the facial expressions on the actors/actress looked fake. The only frightening thing about this movie is that they are threatening a sequel. Don't even put it on, its that bad.
  • courtjes
  • Oct 28, 2017
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1/10

Wow ! I watched this...I'm stupid.

  • Harfy
  • Jan 16, 2018
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2/10

Oh boy

What the smell. Found this on a streaming site. Figured it would be worth a shoot Now I'm just amazed. Dont know what i just watched, feels like a high school movie project. Had to fast forward some sections, to embarrassing to watch. The movie starts of with some James Bond driving scene in the norwegian mountains. Next its a cabin horror movie in the woods. Then its Deliverance oh boy oh boy. From here everything goes south. The two male character turns out to be sosiopaths competing over the poor young lady. The director seemed to put a little bit out of every movie he has watched in to this little scare. And the result is like if you put every thing you like into a blender. You get some grey goo which doesn't taste that good.
  • tomhans-60014
  • Jan 18, 2020
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1/10

Predictable and really really bad

3 friends=Two guys and a girl( with absolutely no on screen chemistry) has decided to go on a pre planed cave exploration,to find some exit that none has found before. One of the guys is the girls longtime ex.BF.and the other is her current boyfriend.And they are all awkward friends.Guess where the thriller element is.

There's very little in the way of character development here,and no back ground story on the 3 friends.Aside from that you get to know one of is her ex bf. And the on screen chemistry is none existent.But that't quite common for Norwegian movies,along with stilted dialogue. Norwegian actors,seem to have a very big problem getting into the role of their character,and make him or her convincing. Especially in Norwegian movies.

*******warning spoiler*************Warning Spoiler************ I don't know much about underwater cave exploring,or cave exploring in general.But I would assume you need to have some sort of back up plan.Something that can take you back to the entrance, if you go down the wrong rabbit whole,or get turned around. But these guys go on a whim and a prayer. They got some sketched map they follow,but only one copy. I doubt it would do them any good if you get turned around in a cave. Also when I think of cave explorers, I would assume they need to be fit.But one of the guys is so fat, that he's beer gut make him look 5 months pregnant. Also very little with the exploration seem very well planed. They have left everything up to one person.No pre check of equipment no each man is responsible for their own checklist etc.

I know if I was going on something as dangerous as this,I would check my own equipment twice,and have back on my back up plan.
  • Eddie_weinbauer
  • Jan 26, 2017
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I got lost in CAVE and...

  • books-206-778991
  • Jun 29, 2017
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7/10

English dubbing does not match subtitles, which both helps and hurts

I have to start by noting I love movies set in caves, tunnels, mines--regardless of the thrill or horror element. Cave-ins, killer beasts, aliens, interpersonal discord, I love it all. I recently watched (link=tt4815122) and loved it more than the average reviewer.

Yes, The Cave has problems other reviewers have mentioned, but not to the extent that they ruined the film. The real issue is the poor English dubbing, which makes the characters seem more inane than they really are. My advice is to keep the subtitles on, because the two translations are quite different, and offer different insight into what is going on.

Yes, this means doing two things at once, reading and listening to different dialogue at once. Sometimes the two translations are just alternate options to make the translation idiomatic in English, but in other cases they don't seem like they could possibly be versions of the same Norwegian line. Putting together the information from both translations fleshes out how the characters relate to each other and react to what happens, and ultimately helps to explain the ending.

Still, there are unanswered questions I think fit into the "the screenwriters were lazy" category rather than the "intentional ambiguities designed to make me think" category. I wonder whether translation issues are obscuring these plot points more than the original screenwriting. Still, don't let the negative reviews turn you away if you're a fan of the genre, rather than just casually looking for a movie.
  • LordManhammer
  • Jun 10, 2020
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4/10

I Lost Interest In This Pretty Quickly

When I first came across the description of this movie I thought it sounded something like "The Descent" - a movie I really enjoyed. I decided to watch it, thinking that it would be a poor copy of that movie. But it's not a copy. There are no monsters - just basically a love triangle between three people (two guys, one girl) who decide to explore some normally off-limits caves. With a diving element involved in this, I also thought it sounded a bit like "Sanctum" - which I also enjoyed. I suppose there are some loose similarities to both of those movies, but basically I was disappointed in this. It's a very short movie (under an hour and a half) - which might be the best thing about it, since you leave it behind at least knowing that you didn't waste too much of your time on it.

It's a Norwegian movie. I watched a version dubbed into English. That makes it somewhat difficult to offer an assessment of the cast - but none of them really stood out to me. It does manage to capture the claustrophobic environment of spelunking - but, then again, surely that isn't especially hard to capture. There really didn't seem to be a lot of chemistry between the three leads and the movie was neither especially tense (although there were a couple of moments) nor was it at all frightening. I'm not one who is big on long extended introductions to movies just for the purpose of establishing a backstory for the characters, but to be honest a little bit of that would have been helpful. As the movie goes on bits and pieces of this are revealed (so Charlotte, who's in a relationship with Adrian, used to be in a relationship with Viktor; and we find out that the three had apparently served together ion Afghanistan) but we don't really learn that much about them and by the time what we do learn begins to be revealed - well, to be honest I had kind of lost interest.

The movie's open-ended, suggesting the possibility of a sequel (which, in fact, is "promised" - or threatened?) in the closing captions. I won't be watching it. (4/10)
  • sddavis63
  • Jun 28, 2018
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10/10

Really Accurate Cave Diving Movie

As a cave diver I Loved this.

Technically well done.

Scuba Kit was spot on, no full face stuff here, including side mount tanks rather then standard rig. Underwater swimming style to reduce risk of silt out was also spot on. Wriggiling through squeezes are like that, and wetsuits are always better caving then drysuits which tear and a leaky suit is more dangerous then a cold suit.

Story could be better,acting was great, esp female lead.

Hoping they do a sequel sometime.

The ending cries out for one.
  • trustn-47834
  • Jan 23, 2017
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7/10

Regular...

The expectation lasted much longer than the tension... It didn't convince the villain as the passed-over guy, almost embarrassing situations, terrible outcome, but the feeling of claustrophobia always distresses and interests me, like when one of them gets stuck, despite the scene being good stupid ... Water in closed places, my constant nightmare ... Regular...
  • RosanaBotafogo
  • May 22, 2020
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3/10

a movie i liked to dislike ...

  • Sherparsa
  • Sep 28, 2017
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