
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flo... (Full plot summary below)
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The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team-including 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?
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| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithJames Cameron produced "Sanctum" to create a similar experience to "Avatar." But where as the world of Pandora benefitted from the immersive qualities of Imax 3-D, "Sanctum" only occasionally uses the screen's size properly. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey"Sanctum" should be an intensely claustrophobic adventure movie; it's not. |
| VarietyJustin ChangThe key to enjoying Sanctum is to look, not listen. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfLooks to engage the audience through dramatic cliché, leaving a nifty premise to wither while lifeless actors spout rotten dialogue and an unimaginative director stages substandard action set pieces. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonThe movie's characters, alas, are thinly drawn and tend to lose dimension and credibility as the story unfolds. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereThe best thing about "Sanctum" is the "Avatar"-like immersive 3-D imagery, shot with Cameron's Fusion Camera System. The rest of it is shockingly mediocre. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderFalls somewhere between the disaster genre and the horror genre ... but it's not campy enough for the former, and not scary enough for the latter. |
| CinemaDopeGlenn LovellToo bad this film, executive produced by Cameron, is rated R for profanity and gruesome makeup effects. I'm betting it's every 13-year-old's dream escape. |
| Encore MagazineSpyder DarlingAnd of course it's in 3-D to add an extra element of submerged vertigo and simply because they can. |
| NYC Film CriticEthan AlterA film of modest ambition that mostly lives up to the low bar it sets for itself. |