*1/2 – I’m am going to allow you, gentle reader, to be placed in the role of one of the lead characters in this sequel to 2005’s fairly watchable “The Descent”. You are the pot-bellied hillbilly sheriff of a podunk backwater somewhere in Appalachia who is searching for six young women who had the misfortune to go missing during a spelunking trip in your jurisdiction. You happen to be an idiot, but somehow you manage to stumble across one of the survivors as she crawls around the woods covered in blood and filth, seemingly mute, and semi-catatonic. You then decide that the best course of action is to take the visibly traumatized nearly comatose woman along with your deputy and a group of three argumentative expert cavers down into the depths to find out what happened. As I mentioned before, you are an idiot, so you bring a gun and start shooting wildly into the ancient, fragile, collapse-prone caverns, which separates the group into easy to pick off groups of between one and three. Unsurprisingly, the weird subterranean inhabitants of the cave have a field day with you and your “rescue party” leaving no survivors. Now, in hindsight, would you have actually made any of the above decisions? Of course you wouldn’t. And that is why this movie was pretty dumb, not to mention far less entertaining than the first in the series. It relied heavily on gore and filth (including a scene of two people wandering around in the area the monsters’ have designated as their poop spot) and went for cheap frights instead of going for being unsettling or thrilling.
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