The Cave....suprising good

The wife and I rented a few flicks from the local ball-buster. Two, The Da Vinci Treasure and Dream Warrior were horrible $400 grand budget b-movie sci-fi flicks that I think even the robots of Mystery Science Theater 3k would retch watching. The first, starring C Thomas Howell (who looked high during filming) and Lance Hendrickson (who's career has careened off a cliff since Aliens and Millenium), was some ridiculous hybrid of The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure. Words cannot describe the level of crapitude of this flick. I have to say my irises were burned out of my skull. Still, I retained enough of my sight to watch Dream Warrior and SURPRISE - good ole Lance was in this craptacular as well, I will give DW this much, as bad as it was, it did not suck on the level of the first piece of garbage. It actually had a decent and somewhat entertaining plot.

So when it looked like our ball-buster night was indeed a bust, we pop in The Cave. Now this movie was released in theaters, it didn't have too many well known actors but it had a very good (and believable plot), the cinematography was spectacular (some of the underwater shots are just beautiful), the special effects were top notch, the action was well paced and it had a good ending. Its your typical group of humans in a forgotten world get picked off one-by-one creature feature, but considering the other two movies wasted three hours of my life that I will never get back, this movie was like Lord of the Rings. If you want a good creature feature, be sure to check out The Cave. Its definitely worth the rent. If you want to give yourself a brain hemmorage, rent The Da Vinci Treasure, Dream Warriors, and top it off with a Bloodrayne chaser. You will be in a coma by sunup.