The Devil's Tomb Movie
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TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
A team of mercenaries under the command of hard-charging war veteran Mack (Gooding Jr.), are contracted by a mysterious CIA operative named Elissa (Cruz) to rescue a scientist (Perlman) working on an archeological discovery deep under the Middle Eastern desert. With the help of a mysterious priest (Rollins), Mack and his team soon discover the true secret of what lies beneath the sands. A secret that has been protected for thousands of years. A secret that is not of this Earth.
| Cuba Gooding Jr. | Mack |
| Ray Winstone | Blakely |
| Ron Perlman | Wesley |
| Henry Rollins | Fulton |
| Taryn Manning | Doc |
| Valerie Cruz | Elissa |
| Franky G | Hammer |
| Bill Moseley | Prof. Duncan |
| Zack Ward | Nickels |
| Stephanie Jacobsen | Yoshi |
| Sarah Ann Morris | Sharon |
| Jason London | Hicks |
| Mia Miller | Hicks and Yoshi's daughter |
| Brandon Fobbs | Click |
| Weston Blakesley | Father Jacoby |
| Jason Connery |
4.10 out of 10 (2337 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Oh this is bad...
posted on 31 Aug 2009I thought there might be a chance this movie would be amusing, if not slightly reasonable given the cast.
I was wrong.
There might be some spoilers here, and for this movie I use the word lightly, but be warned.
The basic plot:
1) Crack team of commando type soldiers get assigned a special mission. Cuba us their leader.
2) An anthropologist, who works for the CIA, is the special 1-time leader. Their mission is to extract her father, who is another scientist type.
3) The go into a bunker, which used to be a tomb (1,000 feet deep). In the process, we learn that "sand can blast your skin off, so stay tight". Because if you are close to one another, obviously sand *can't* blast your skin off... for some reason.
4) The SAS type folks then find a person full of disease like boils. Of course, they treat the person and don't think that this is odd. The person is a priest, still alive, who they don't bother really containing.
5) Most of the SAS types go down a very fast moving elevator. 1 stays up. We learn that you can watch porn anywhere, as the 1 at the top level is keen to view porn. Later (by the way) he see's a hot lady on the level (which they previously cleared). So, we learn that SAS folks expect to find hot, naked ladies on levels of underground bunkers - which were previously found to have no hot naked ladies - and this is normal. Of course she eats him.
6) Back to our fearless heroes below. We learn that if you are SAS, and you see your unborn baby girl suddenly be a little girl while wondering the tombs underground corridors, you should follow her. It's a great idea. Then we learn that if she turns into a demon, that's reasonable (and she's still...cute?) I suppose SAS deal with that daily. Then, if you hear her again, you should follow her again. Even after she tried to bite you last time. Then, as you *are* in a danger zone and on a mission, whilst hearing your demon baby calling down the halls, our fearless mother to be decides it's a good time to suck on another woman's disease boils while satisfying her lesbian curiosity. Okay.
7) The rest of the troop go wandering around, looking for the lead scientist. Whilst doing the wandering, we learn a few more things:
a) That any other hallucination is something good, and should be followed, listened to, or otherwise obeyed.
b) That demon's don't know how to use elevators. But they can discourse on philosophy, open doors, use radios, equipment, and basically anything else. Except elevators.
8) The above relates to some plot line where the demons (I think) want to get out of the tomb. But they can't. Even though it turns out there are *two* entrances/exits, and for 1 of them you *didn't* need to use the elevator. It's a mystery why they can't get out. Maybe I missed something about them being impaired with elevator button pushing.
9) So they have the showdown with the major demon thing. Then, Cuba's character, who doesn't seem at all religious, get's inspired by another character. When he touches her amulet, he instantly becomes infused with passion and deep spiritual belief he's never had before, and suddenly becomes obsessed with a new calling in life. Cuba is now the religious demon hunter.
One could go on and on with the silly plot holes. If any of this sounds ridiculous to you, that's because it is. Really.
Watch this movie if you get it free, don't value your time (or are really sick, and laying on the couch in a fever), or really want to laugh at how bad a movie can be.
Decent, but implausible
posted on 31 Aug 2009Short Attention Span Summary:
1. We are introduced to some people who are going into the desert to find some scientist who needs rescuing.
2. All of the characters are military personnel who have served in active combat, and we keep getting flashbacks that tell us some very vague things about these periods of their lives.
3. We also find out that there is something in this area that they are exploring that is supernatural/ evil.
4. At the end, it turns out that the purpose of the military expedition was to bring one woman to oversee the death of her father and take his place doing something between holding back demons and holding the gates of hell closed.
Looking back, this movie was really weird. The first thing is that the ending was really disappointing. They went through all this for a single change of positions (=daughter changing with father)? It seems like the suspense was well built up, but the ending was ultimately anti-climactic. Secondly: The religious symbols used here were too.....esoteric/ unfamiliar. Ok, I know that the writers didn't want to do done to death vampires/ angels/ vengeful ghosts. Fair enough. But could they have at least done something vaguely familiar? Or could they have introduced the material in such a way that we could have followed what was going on?
What else? If you were some solider somewhere and you saw all these VERY STRANGE things happening, what would you do? Would you continue to go deeper into that Leviathan or would you just say: "It's been fun folks. Goodbye." A sense of duty where you might be killed on the battlefield is one thing. A sense of stupidity when you might have to face the supernatural is quite another.
This is not worth a movie ticket. It's worth, at most, a rental off the New Releases shelf.
THIS WASN'T THAT BAD 7.25 OUT OF 10
posted on 31 Aug 2009Okay, so as a horror flick, this wasn't amazing, but it was a decent film despite being straight-to-DVD. For about twenty minutes I was left going "Oh God no" because it was stealing ideas from other films and for some reasons was evoking memories of the action/horror disaster Alone in the Dark (Unrated Director's Cut). Thankfully it managed to pull out of that. Although it seems like it steals too many ideas from Resident Evil (Special Edition), Doom (Full Screen), and Aliens, this was fairly entertaining and provided good doses of action.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: When a research team goes missing (Resident Evil, Doom, Aliens) in the Middle East, a special team of soldiers (Again, the same previous films mentioned) lead by Captain Mack (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is sent to investigate, only to have one of their own team members go missing. As the team searches, they realize they are being stalked by creatures who can't die from being shot at and have a connection with an evil angel that was dug up at the sight and now the fate of the world rests in the team's hands. But the team has another problem to contend with; if they don't get out from underground it time, they'll get blown to hell.
MUSIC: The music in this film is fairly good and fits the mood of an action/horror flick. I really have nothing to pick at with this area.
ACTION: Although the films this one ripped off had better action scenes, this film still has entertaining shoot 'em up action and some good zombie/demon fights. This film also has nice touches of gore to go along with it as well. There were some parts in the film that I couldn't help but question. For example; When one of the team members finds the missing teammate, for some reason the two women start making out. I had a blank look on my face as I tried to figure out what was going on, then the missing teammate stabs the other woman and carves the skin off her back. Before that, the Asian chick (Who found the missing teammate) not only followed the creepy hallucination that tried to kill her once, she did it twice. Unfortunately, as you've probably noticed, this film has a loose and sloppily written plot that at times is incomprehensible.
ACTING: This area is half and half. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ron Perlman are good actors, but the other cast members are a bit questionable in their acting abilities. Aside from Cuba Gooding Jr., Ron Perlman, and the guy who was killed by dogs in Resident Evil - Apocalypse (Special Edition), I didn't recognize anyone else. This area is mixed unfortunately.
OVERALL: Rental. This is a decent action/horror flick, but it could have been taken farther. The plot is a loose and sloppy mess and the actors could have better at their roles. But the action scenes, nice touches of gore, and decent special effects manages to keep this film afloat.
THE GOOD: Cool action scenes, plenty of gore, good music, and good special effects.
THE BAD: Rips off too many films, mixed bag acting, and a loose and sloppy plot.
Sealed Evil In A Can
posted on 31 Aug 2009The Devils Tomb: 4 out of 10: Not since Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke" has a movies title rendered about eighty percent of the plot development mute. Dumbass spoiler alert Hey, the mysterious underground archeological site turns out to be a tomb. Whose tomb you ask? (IN MY BEST CHURCH LADY VOICE) Could it be Satan???.
Okay so it is a remake of Prince of Darkness, but with the Space Marines from Aliens after a tragic mass lobotomization. Look, I realize that not every American soldier is a fully-fledged genius; but how any of these thunderheads managed to make it through basic, without throwing the pin, is anyones guess. (When you pull a pin on a grenade, you theoretically have a choice to throw one of two things. Most people choose the grenade part.) The script is to blame. Since the soldiers simply are not believable, the rest of the film falls apart; (Not that the script improves all that much when the mumbo-jumbo starts.)
This is a shame because the acting is game. Now when you have Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Winstone, Ron Perlman and even Taryn Manning (who really surprised me with a fun performance.); you are going to have decent acting. Throw in a fun Henry Rollins as a priest bit and an over the top performance by Bill Moseley and you have one of the best-acted B movies this year. Only Franky G drops the ball, in a horribly written role, as the dumb muscle.
The direction is by Jason Connery, who is best known* as Bennington in the TV Series "Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!. The direction is serviceable, though he really needed a military advisor on set; or, at the very least, someone who has played paintball. The actors did not seem to know what to do with their rifles and kept pointing them at each other. In addition, if you are firing a kill shot you want to line it up AWAY from the hostage.
Special effects and other items are okay. Heck there is even a lesbian subplot that threatens to make the movie interesting (Though the script drops the ball on that as well.) If you can get through the first twenty minutes without your eyes rolling out of your head, The Devils Tomb turns into a collection of interesting performances looking for a purpose. And figuring out who is buried in the Devils tomb will not keep most people entertained. (And no it isnt Ulysses S Grant).
*He is also the son of Scottish actor Sean Connery who played the old Spaniard in the Highlander movies during the Eighties.
Worth it for the actors, and that's it
posted on 31 Aug 2009What happened to Cuba Gooding Jr? He went from Oscar winner to starring in direct to DVD B-flicks like this, The Devil's Tomb. Cuba plays Mack, the leader of a special forces team who is assigned to a mysterious underground facility to rescue a scientist (Ron Perlman). As everyone soon begins to learn however, there's something housed down there that should never have been found to begin with. The Devil's Tomb doesn't offer anything that we haven't seen plenty of times before, and while there are some decent gore effects and gross out moments, the film's biggest flaw is its cliche script, and the fact that these supposed special forces operatives do some pretty dumb things. Cuba is as good as he can be, while Taryn Manning turns in a particularly terrible performance as the team's doctor turned demon. Jason London, Zack Ward, and Henry Rollins are on board as well, as are genre stalwarts Perlman and Bill Moseley, and Ray Winstone in a cameo; all three of whom are undoubtedly the best part of the film. All in all, The Devil's Tomb offers little other than the actors that are in it, and other than that, there isn't much reason to catch it otherwise.
Just plain bad.
posted on 31 Aug 2009I saw the trailer of this movie and it looked well done (I guess editing can do wonders). But when I saw the movie, I can't believe Cuba Gooding signed up for this. I believe in casting the right actor to play the right character. Here, the casting is pretty bad. In every good military or war film, most actors undergo boot camp. Here, it's just obvious that not one of them had any training, e.g. movement and handling of weapons. The only credible acting here is done by Gooding. But even Mr. "show me the money" can't carry an entire production gone bad. The rest are miscast. Any film which stars Ron Perelman as a scientist is bound to fail. I don't think even the deleted scenes from "Alien" would be as bad as this movie. The characters are supposed to be members of an elite military covert unit. But they talk and appear to be unprofessional. Taryn Manning is supposed to be a doctor or a medic. But she carries a weapon. Stephanie Jacobsen is not believable as a soldier. She can't act the part. It's just out of her range. I don't think she can even play a Vietnamese villager in a Vietnam war film. Brandon Fobbs's character is supposed to speak several languages but his accent is thuggish. Jason London's character "Hicks" appears to be taken directly from Michael Biehn's character in "Aliens", "Cpl. Dwayne Hicks". The helmets used for the flashback scenes are too small making the soldiers look funny. The blood and make-up are too red. Jason Connery should take some tips from Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" in shooting battle scenes. And what are priests doing under the Middle Eastern desert? The demons look like leftover characters from "Buffy" or "Angel". This DVD is a waste of time and money. The editing and lighting are bad as well. The worse part is the direction. I am guessing Jason Connery never went to film school. But then again, Quentin Tarantino didn't go either. I could have made a better movie than this. And I am not even a director.
Low Budget Straight To DVD Release
posted on 31 Aug 2009This movie isn't as bad as everyone is making it out to be. The problem seems to be the high expectations people are having for this film starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Ron Pearlman, and Henry Rollins.
This is standard B movie stuff. The plot is a rehash of material done in the past. The title says everything you need to know...THE DEVIL'S TOMB. If you don't like cheeseball movies that include the demonic possessed, projectile vomit and Satan then this isn't for you.
The acting was actually pretty good for a low budget film. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ron Pearlman are fine actors, and I found it entertaining watching former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins overact in his role as a Catholic Priest.
The latex monster FX (boils, demonic make-up, blood) were also pretty good, but the few CGI FX included were dated. The plot could have been better, but I give the movie three stars because it was fairly entertaining compared to the other straight to video drek coming out these days. My wife hated this film and left the room until it was over. I believe most people will react as she did to this movie, so if you don't like B movies don't even bother.
I suggest renting rather than buying. Unless you are a hardcore Ron Pearlman, Cuba Gooding Jr. or Henry Rollins fan then you probably aren't going to get a whole lot out of this.
This was promising...
posted on 31 Aug 2009There wasnt much advertised on this and when I read about it on UHM, [...] I though Hmm, this looks pretty good. Good cast of actors, good description, this is worth a watch.
Boy was I wrong. I barely got through this movie. Whats worse is the religious aspect that they throw at you toward the end. I wouldnt recommend this to anyone.
This could have been a great movie, but alas another movie bites the dust, but if you must see it/own it Im sure it will be in the doller bin soon.
Worth Less Than One Star
posted on 31 Aug 2009Poor screenplay, bad dialogue, very shallow character development; not even decent special effects. If you liked the movie Doom (which I doubt), you MIGHT find this not a total waste of time (which I doubt even more). Even watching this at 2 X speed was grueling. I found myself feeling sorry for the actors, wondering what they thought when they saw the final cut. Surely, Cuba Gooding, Jr et al deserved more than this!
Ok if you like the actors, but done way better elsewhere before.
posted on 31 Aug 2009There are some extremely negative reviews online about this film, leading me to wonder what the deal is. Before I read these negative reviews I had pre-ordered this film from Amazon based on the actors in it that I like, (and the trailer looked interesting). Then the decision, to keep it, or send it back? I kept it. Watched it last night. Is it all that bad? Well, here's the deal, my opinion. The filming is fine, decent enough, does not look like any sort of a pathetic home movie or have a sci-fi channel look. The acting is fine, particularly from the seasoned actors (some of the line though are pretty throw away). The sets, music, etc., are all decent. Even the directing is decent. The material, on the other hand, leaves something to be desired. This is nothing we have not seen elsewhere, and done better (Doom, Resident Evil). I heard a bit of the audio commentary of the film by the director and Cuba, and the director mentions he was inspired by Carpenter's THE THING, and ALIEN. Well, those (incredible) films it's certainly not. But it is not really trying to be them either. It has it's own take on things I suppose. But it just comes off as a cheap DOOM, or Resident Evil, with elements of the PROPHECY films series. But the name itself tells you pretty much what it's about, "THE DEVIL'S TOMB". And that's where it gets old, the use of the same old tired and burned out religious themes. One sort of gets the feeling in a few places that one is looking at a pathetic attempt at Xtian Horror that some people got their hands on and made better out of it than it deserves. I'm very anti- religious, but it's theme's aren't all that distracting. It's just that it isn't all that great a film either. Some of the characters are interesting, but it all comes off as something retreading something else that has been done better before. But if you want to see some people creep around in a dark underground labyrinth, see some mild gore, and whatnot, then it isn't all that terrible. Certainly not worth the price they are charging currently, but if you see it in a discount bin somewhere later on, you might give it a shot. There are plenty of better films of this nature out there though and if you don't own them, you would certainly be better of purchasing them first, or instead.
The Devil's Tomb
posted on 31 Aug 2009...Wow...All these actors must be hard-up for cash because this movie by far is the biggest disgrace to everything hollywood. Acting was atrocious, storyline(plot)could have been good if it was handled by talent but it wasn't, and all in all an amazing disappointment! Don't let the list of actors in this movie trick you...it's total garbage and all these actors (Cuba Gooding Jr, Ray Winstone, Ron Perlman and Henry Rollins) should be ashamed. Sean Connery's son Jason Connery shows us that talent is not inherited and hopfully he never directs again.
They tried. . .but it failed for lack of coherence & suspense.
posted on 28 Aug 2009I read through a bunch of the other reviews-- but then decided to give it a try and an open mind.Alas. . .the other reviewers are right.HOWEVER. . . IF you have NEVER seen "Prince of Darkness" and you and your Girlfriend just want something lite and a little gory for a Saturday Night Horror flick-- This DOES qualify as a passable thriller rental pick. If that's all you want-- READ NO FURTHER. Put the DVD in the player and enjoy. Fried Chicken and Pop goes nicely with this. And the Girlfriend can talk all she wants. To you. To her Cellphone. To her Mom. . .it doesn't matter.BUT IF YOU ARE A SERIOUS CRITIC OF THE RELIGIOUS HORROR SUB-GENRE on the other hand. . .Read On-- First-- the Title of the Movies tells you ALL you need to know- so there's no suspense in finding out what it's all about.Two-- Lack of consistency. A military extraction team such as was portrayed here was so in-effective, so undisciplined, so un-cohesive as to make a drill sergeant scream with shame and anguish. By the time the Asian gal went chasing after the little girl in the white dress --AGAIN!-- I threw my hands up in disgust. They might as well have someone chase a cat into a dark room and crouch down and go: "Here, kitty-kitty-kitty!" Three-- Location and Setup inconsistency. If this was a deep ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavation somewhere in a Desert-- why would someone build an entire REFINERY FACTORY half a mile UNDERGROUND?Four-- By the time you start pulling together the priests, the zombies, the devil in the Ice and the periodic blathering of scripture, that was a sideshow to the idiotic one by one luring off of the mission team members to be seduced and stabbed and vomited on. By this time, it long stopped being suspenseful. Instead, you are sitting there going "Yeah-yeah-yeah, just get on it with it!" Five-- Mack's Past Flashbacks became meaningless and wasted.Six-- This movie was a rip off of "Prince of Darkness". And "Prince of Darkness" did it better. WAY better. By the first 20 minutes, I was hoping that this movie would be an attempt to take the "Prince of Darkness" concept to a new level, just on the military side-- but they stumbled off into the proverbial dark.Fact is-- today-- if you're going to try and render the story of the Battle of Heaven and Fallen Angels in a modern, non-religious plot-- you must have a savvy, coherent, intelligent script that can mix in SERIOUS theology, historical bits and science together into something the viewer can see as plausible. Because this is one of those topics that really shouldn't be done unless you're willing to do it WELL.
Worse than expected!
posted on 26 Aug 2009Watch out guys - the review saying this movie is "surprisingly" good - is being sarcastic! - it's actually pretty dead on if you're in on the joke - maybe I'm just slow, but I did not get it - and now it's too late - I've wasted my time on this pile of s...! I guess a movie titled " The Devil's Tomb" is never gonna be Oscar material, but I still expected some kind of dumb entertainment of some sort - but what a letdown! Only fun to be had is trying to keep track of all the dumb moves this crew of "elite" soldiers pull off. It's truly a special team Cuba Gooding has managed to form here - there's a rookie on board too - everyone makes fun of him - but he might just be the wisest of the bunch. Speaking bout rookie stuff - this movie is just so poorly made that it's impossible to get into on any kind of level! What I'm trying to say is: whatever You do - DON'T waste your time on this one!
Wasted Opportunity
posted on 22 Aug 2009This movie was terrible and it's a real shame because the cast is good. The main problem was the script that had no character development at all. The first 10 minutes of the film are really slow and nothing is added to the story.All we see is a supposed elite military force acting like children and insulting each other and moaning about the mission. If they had spent this time introducing the characters and their relationships with each other then I might have maybe cared a little about what happens to them.I get the feeling the writer of this movie had recently seen Event Horizon, Doom and Mutant Chronicles and basically copied any ideas that this movie does have from there, this film isn't as good as any of them though.The annoying flashbacks that occur regularly for Cuba Gooding Jr. character are badly portrayed and fail at explaining the relationship between Cuba and Ray Winstone.The Military unit act completely unprofessionally and don't watch each others backs at all and keep wondering off alone. It is like they have received no military training at all.The intent and abilities of the 'ancient evil' is barely even touched on and left me very underwhelmed. This movie isn't at all scary and has no shocks or plot twists.I could go on all day about the plot wholes and bad script. It was just such a shame that they wasted a good cast on such a bad script. Avoid this movie and watch Event Horizon instead.
Game cast does what it can with a script that is pure gibberish
posted on 22 Aug 2009While looking for weapons of mass destruction American forces discovered a strange tomb. When contact is lost with the first team another one is sent and once they get there they find an ancient evil. Its technically not the devils tomb but the tomb of one of the fallen angels who's presence is being sought by some other beings who want to use their evil...no it really doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense to me either. Notable for starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Ron Perlman, and Henry Rollins this is a typical low budget horror film bumped up with a bigger name cast. Its directed by Jason Connery who I'm guessing called in favors to get the cast. He's not a bad director and he keeps the stereotypical material moving along at a good clip. The trouble with the film is that the plot is a complete mess and it really doesn't make a great deal of sense with flashbacks, zombies, gore sequences and what appears to be an ever changing sense of reality. The good cast can't sell what really isn't there and the film becomes a watchable film, but nothing that is really going to stick with you. There are better variations on the theme, John Carpenters Prince of Darkness for example. Worth a look on a slow day on cable, but not really worth bothering with otherwise.
Brilliant Cast in a Bad Movie...
posted on 20 Aug 2009I was genuinely excited when I saw so many actors in this film I knew from other great TV shows and movies. We have Cuba Gooding Jr. who has starred in many blockbusters, Ron Perlman is Hellboy for Pete's Sake.. and for those not up with the British TV, Ray Winstone (Blakley) is a pretty big name also. I was even happy to see Henry Rollins.....may contain spoilers... but then the movie started and I got the "B-Movie" sense immediately. The whole set up of the movie is along the same lines as a British movie called Outpost starring Ray Stevenson, from HBO's "Rome", and the plot about Nephlim's is sketchy and didn't come together well. To be honest, the way the movie ended could have happened in the first ten minutes of the flick and saved us a lot of time. Apparently all it took was one bullet, which is strange because the "creatures" they met along the way all ate major lead and were still walking around. The ending, with Cuba doing his speech thing, I was just thinking, Dude you went from A-List to Z-List.This movie should have been produced better, given a proper budget, throw in realistic special effects, some cgi,... and with the cast involved, you could make a killer movie. Too bad this ever went to public, I feel bad for Cuba and Ron. Like another commenter said, Missed Opportunity.
So bad I'm at a loss for words.
posted on 16 Aug 2009THE DEVIL'S TOMB by SAMPSON 411 When you watch an independent film, you at least know what you're getting in for. Here, The Devil's Tomb is low budget, but most of it's success at the rental store is going to come as a result of its "name" actors and its impressive DVD art work. While it had it's moments (a rare few of them), in general, this was a movie that was destined for the Sci-Fi Channel, but was somehow rescued to the rental store shelves. 5.0/10 stars, at best (anything under 5.0 stars being totally unwatchable for me -- so this is borderline).The story follows an elite military unit as it goes underground, into an underground laboratory to retrieve a civilian after some unknown biological/radiological/chemical disaster. What the team discovers, is that something ancient and sinister has been unleashed, and it's up to them to make certain the evil can't escape into the world (while figuring out a way to survive said evil at the same time).To be fair, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is the MAN. His performance rocks, as does his acting. However, the film's dialogue and delivery by his fellow cast members is less than memorable. One couldn't use the "f-bomb" more than the actors do, even if being promised a billion dollars at day's end. Why do writers think that using the f-bomb someone makes for good drama? When have you ever heard two people talking in real life like this? It makes the dialogue feel forced. People don't always say things trying to sound "cool," and those who do sound like idiots (as do actors saying these things as they try to sound "cool").Although the concept seemed new, it felt old. Actors running around in a "closed" building makes for a cheap film, but a very stale movie. Guns, blood and cheap special effects do not a good movie make (but they apparently make money, considering it was on the Blockbuster shelf as a "best seller" – go figure, eh. Just goes to show that we all have different tastes).The visual feel of the movie is constant – too light for the actors to need their ever constant flash lights, and too clear to be anything but poorly utilized digital cameras. No grit. No texture. Not very visually compelling.If you've seen Resident Evil, you've seen a far better version of this film. Rent it if you must, but just watch it with lowered expectations, or you'll want to gouge your eyes out. Watch it looking to just have a good two-hours free of thought or care, then you're set.
Pass The Vomit Bag
posted on 10 Aug 2009I rented this movie after seeing the trailer on another DVD, looked interesting, I like Sci-Fi , Cuba Gooding Jr. was an added reason to rent this movie. WOW what a Mistake, good thing it only cost me $2.99 at the local variety store down the street, but still 90 Min, of wasted time, OK I confess 60 Min. I used the fast forward on my DVD remote to finish off the last 30 min. Everything was weak, from the script, to the line delivery by the actors, to the suspense (Nil) and the set was so Pathetic, those under ground rock walls looked so fake, grade 8 kids with paper mache, glue and a spray can could have done better. There were so many cliché lines used, this could have played out to be a comedy, sadly no one to laugh. Oh the addition of Henry Rollins (The Priest), his best acting came in Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves, and that was back in 95, OMG he was terrible. THIS MOVIE STINKS!!! Plan 9 From Outer Space out shines this crap, Pass The Vomit Bag.
Entertaining for a low budget flick
posted on 31 Aug 2009I was expecting much less from this movie. The beginning of the movie had me wondering how bad the movie was going to turn out to be, but it actually got better through out. Once the action started and the plot started coming together I was entertained for the rest of the movie. I just watched Terminator Salvation in the theaters which cost $200 million to make, and I actually found The Devil's Tomb more entertaining and I didn't feel like I wasted my money after watching it (unlike with Terminator). Give it a shot, you might like it.