Sarah(Shauna Macdonald), survivor of the first film, plagued with amnesia(the trauma temporarily blocking the horrifying incidents she had been through), is forced to accompany a sheriff, the sheriff's deputy, and a rock climbing team into the uncharted cave system to find her missing friends. Yep, another descent into the dark where monsters lurk. Sarah is a suspect because she's the only member of her team to have returned and had blood on her clothes.
A gun going off, unstable rocks, claustrophobic surroundings, and only helmet lights to guide the way..our cast are certainly in for a rude awakening.
Keeping ties to the first film, The Descent Part 2 is the highly disregarded sequel which seems, to it's many, many critics to be a step in the wrong direction from the original. I do agree that they are different films.
The Descent was an "ooga booga" spookshow where something barely recognizable kept attacking and killing the female rock climbing team. The sequel shows them in their glory(they look like nosferatu to me)and, in my opinion, this movie is more of a gory creature feature. For most of the running time, it's about characters trapped in a cave with only their flashlights to help them move about, as they both attempt to find a way out and survive the ghastly inhabitants, blind carnivorous dwellers who hunt their prey through sound. The cast must use whatever tools or weapons(rocks)are available to them when on the offensive/defensive and it gets plenty bloody.
In the sequel, we see a lot more and I think that many will feel it loses the effectiveness of the original's power..the whole point about what it is that you don't see scattered about in the darkness, scaling walls and hungry. The Descent Part 2 is lighted differently in that we see everything clearer as those involved keep their torches burning. Real suspense is traded in for teeth ripping flesh and an assortment of weapons used to stab the creatures with gushing blood a result. Whatever it is that gives you your visceral thrills, I imagine many of The Descent's fans will have a hard time adjusting to the differences between it and the sequel.
I actually enjoyed The Descent Part 2 up until the misguided ending which left me rolling my eyes in puzzlement. I can only guess that those which loathed this sequel didn't care for the look of the creatures(I did for I thought they were a ghoulish sight)or how the story about the characters fight for survival developed. I think the best suspense sequence has one rock climber trapped in a "boulder choke"(collapsing boulders surround her and she must somehow escape as one of the cave monsters finds it's way in to get after her).
The sequel allows for us to see several of the victims from the first film worse for wear(the understatement of the week), and there's a revelation later regarding the fate of one of the girls left for dead in The Descent. Closure is allowed for two characters who had split on not-so-friendly terms.
Depending on your expectations going in, this will either upset you or maybe surprise you in how it's not so terribly made in the way sequels often are to their predecessors. Without the stupid ending, I actually enjoyed this sequel quite a bit. I thought the graphic violence delivered and I actually found the creatures a rather menacing brood of voracious predators.
A gun going off, unstable rocks, claustrophobic surroundings, and only helmet lights to guide the way..our cast are certainly in for a rude awakening.
Keeping ties to the first film, The Descent Part 2 is the highly disregarded sequel which seems, to it's many, many critics to be a step in the wrong direction from the original. I do agree that they are different films.
The Descent was an "ooga booga" spookshow where something barely recognizable kept attacking and killing the female rock climbing team. The sequel shows them in their glory(they look like nosferatu to me)and, in my opinion, this movie is more of a gory creature feature. For most of the running time, it's about characters trapped in a cave with only their flashlights to help them move about, as they both attempt to find a way out and survive the ghastly inhabitants, blind carnivorous dwellers who hunt their prey through sound. The cast must use whatever tools or weapons(rocks)are available to them when on the offensive/defensive and it gets plenty bloody.
In the sequel, we see a lot more and I think that many will feel it loses the effectiveness of the original's power..the whole point about what it is that you don't see scattered about in the darkness, scaling walls and hungry. The Descent Part 2 is lighted differently in that we see everything clearer as those involved keep their torches burning. Real suspense is traded in for teeth ripping flesh and an assortment of weapons used to stab the creatures with gushing blood a result. Whatever it is that gives you your visceral thrills, I imagine many of The Descent's fans will have a hard time adjusting to the differences between it and the sequel.
I actually enjoyed The Descent Part 2 up until the misguided ending which left me rolling my eyes in puzzlement. I can only guess that those which loathed this sequel didn't care for the look of the creatures(I did for I thought they were a ghoulish sight)or how the story about the characters fight for survival developed. I think the best suspense sequence has one rock climber trapped in a "boulder choke"(collapsing boulders surround her and she must somehow escape as one of the cave monsters finds it's way in to get after her).
The sequel allows for us to see several of the victims from the first film worse for wear(the understatement of the week), and there's a revelation later regarding the fate of one of the girls left for dead in The Descent. Closure is allowed for two characters who had split on not-so-friendly terms.
Depending on your expectations going in, this will either upset you or maybe surprise you in how it's not so terribly made in the way sequels often are to their predecessors. Without the stupid ending, I actually enjoyed this sequel quite a bit. I thought the graphic violence delivered and I actually found the creatures a rather menacing brood of voracious predators.