Sanctum

This 3-D cave-diving adventure plays on a lot of fears, so avoid it if you have an aversion to claustrophobia, drowning or really bad acting.

Its downfall is its clich-riddled and fusty script.

Despite the millions clearly poured into it, the film feels cheap and amateurish. See it on IMAX if you wish, but the flaws will only look bigger.

It's ruthless, claustrophobic and rather less fun than the 1959 version of Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Sometimes the sets look like, well, Styrofoam. So do the actors.

Stick that camera down an aquatic cave, wrap a paper-thin plot around it, slap the whole thing up on an IMAX screen and call it a movie. More truth in advertising: Call it a lame movie.

The failings of 3D, the ironically one-dimensional characters, and hammy acting squander any hope of losing oneself in this tale of survival.

Doesn't surpass being a hypertrophied B movie. [Full review in Spanish]

An interesting journey thanks to a decent helping of suspenseful moments, but it's unfortunate the characters don't retain the same level of intrigue.

The cast is uniformly weak, likely a combination of being forced to mutter words that shouldn't even be thought in silence and their own cinematic inadequacy.