Dead Mine

WTF HAPPENED?!!!!
The ending leaves you pissed off but wanting to find out what happened. Maybe that's what the director wanted which is either leave you wanting more to catapult a sequel or just to induce shock effect into the viewer. Overall, movie was cheesy goodness and entertaining. Definitely worth a watch if you're into these type of genre.

Yamashita's Gold
A group of explorers enter a cave on an Indonesian island that was once home to a special Japanese bunker. The members of the group have their own reasons for going on the trip, ones that they don't share immediately. As it happens pirates with entrance sealing grenades are also on the island. Out explorers venture into the cave in order to find a way out. They realize this was not an ordinary bunker and one that is still occupied.

If we changed the setting, and made the Japanese into Nazis, then we would have seen this film a half dozen times before. The plot was well put together. There was good diversity within the group, but the characters came off boring. The setting was drab and military gray by design, which made it unexciting.

It is worthy of a rental. Won't be in my collection until it is on some multi-pack.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

Ok production has its moments, but no ending
Good production, so-so acting and no conclusion are a way to sum up this film. It has a plot that i thought was interesting, including lots of crawling around in tunnels on your belly to evade some creepy killers. Some might find it repetitious, but i thought it kept throwing in new twists at just the right moment. A few critics have noted that it doesn't have an ending and i felt the same. I could understand this decision, if the writers had suggested there was still more story to tell, or if they wanted the viewer to feel some sense of hope for the characters. But it's too vague to say either way.

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