So the movie starts with the main character escaping from the hole. She's interviewed by the police so they can find out what happened. She gives her story for maybe the first quarter or so. She blames her jealous friend for setting up this trap that presumably ended up in the deaths of three other characters. Then the second quarter starts and we hear the friend's side of the story, which is almost the opposite of what we just saw. The movie got interesting here. We've got an established mystery, we don't even know the end result of the mystery or what happened in the hole, but we've got to figure out why it happened and go from there.

Then the movie takes a disappointing turn and simply continues on with the friend's side of the story. It turns out he's telling the truth and the movie doesn't even try to convince you otherwise. So it ends up not being some mystery that unfolds where two people tell opposing stories, it's just one story, and the whole first quarter of the movie didn't matter. The entire second half continues on with this until the very end, where I was hoping that maybe there'd be some kind of twist, but no. Nothing. We just accept the facts that we were bluntly told a quarter way through, that the main character is a psychopath and it was she who set the whole thing up.

The movie is very early 2000s and it comes off as laughable a lot of the time. Sometimes the acting can be good, but often times it isn't. The score sucks because of how dated it is, and the script can be pretty cringey too. Early on I started to think that this movie would suck because of all these things, but then I thought maybe this interesting mystery would unfold, and the writing would save the film. That doesn't happen. It's entertaining enough, and I guess it's worth watching if it's on TV or something, but otherwise there's no real point in watching it. The story is so clichéd you won't be missing much.

The movie concerns a bunch of adolescents formed by Thora Birch , Desmond Harrington , Kiera Knightley and others who stake to shelter in a bunker .

They're closed up and then terrible events originate .

Although the happening develops itself in locked place the film is not tiring .

The yarn mingles emotions , violence , shocks , thriller , the suspense doesn't fail and that's why it's bemusing and isn't boring .

Acting by Thora Birch is awesome , she was paid a high salary due to her recent acclaimed role in American Beauty (1998) . The beautiful and very young Kiera Knightley -she war 15 when this movie was shot- is ready as a future main star (Pirates del Caribbean, curse of the black pearl) and even she has a brief first nude scene . And Desmond Harrington (Ghost ship) is cool .

The film has relation to last group of English movies developed in shut and strange stages as the Bunkers or trenches , for example : ¨Deathwatch¨ and ¨the Bunker¨.

The movie has a pretty twisted plot and the final storyline has extraordinary and fascinating surprises. The motion pictture was well directed by Nick Hamm (Killing Bono , Godsend , Talk of angels) . Flick will appeal mystery and emotions fans.

Rating: 6/10 Good . Well worth watching

This movie is basically a well made thriller, that has an original concept but in the end still falls flat as a thriller, due to some poor, mostly non-linear, storytelling.

Really the main problem for me regarding this movie was its storytelling. It has a non-linear storyline, with flashbacks and such. It also tells the story two times, only from a different source. It makes the first part of the movie feel kind of redundant afterward. Sure its good for some twist but unfortunately at the same time these twists are too obvious and not quite surprising enough. And why do movie makers keep giving away parts of the ending of the movie already at the beginning? I'll never understand why they do this. It's a killer for the rest of the movie, since you already know who survived and who didn't. It completely takes most of the tension away and you know certain events have to occur in the movie to add up to the ending of it, which was already shown in the beginning. It's mostly a common thing in British movies. One they should very quickly abandon this way of storytelling in the movie business.

This movie makes the cop seem like a bunch of narrow minded morons. They could had solved the entire mystery already halfway through the movie and while watching this movie it makes you wonder why they didn't. I hate it when they make the police seem like stupid narrow minded persons, mainly because its bad for the credibility of the entire movie.

The characters are good and so are the actors that portray them. Only thing is that they used too old persons to play the youngster. I hate it when man play boy-parts. It's not credible. The only one who seemed to have the real right age at the time was Keira Knightley

I appreciate what the movie tries to succeed and it times it comes really close. For most part the atmosphere of the movie remains good and consistent. It tries to make the movie a mysterious one with lots of twist and character changes in it. However most of the twist are too obvious with as a direct result that this movie isn't the most surprising thriller around.

In the end it simply doesn't all add up. The movie remains too vague in certain areas and doesn't deliver a satisfying enough ending. It makes you wonder why this should be the ending. It seems like a silly and unlikely thing that the Thora Birch character would get away with this all, after already confessing it moments ago to Dr. Philippa Horwood. The movie leaves too many questions and improbabilities.

A movie that had way more potential and in the end comes too short of becoming a completely good, memorable and credible thriller.

6/10

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