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(POSSIBLE SPOILERS) The Descent 2 had a few chances to match the original film, but blew it in the final moments. I came in with the expectation that this movie was a turgid disappointment compared to the original (online ratings and all) but then it started to reveal some plot twists that really upped my intrigue levels.
the sequel picks up right at the end of the first film, and our surviving heroine sarah now has amnesia and is in the hospital. the other girls are missing and the local towny sheriff isn't buying it. so he drags sarah, his deputy and some other cavers back into the caves via an old mine shaft. bad idea jeans. repeat some of the original plot: someone gets stuck, people get separated, someone gets attacked, blood spurts left and right, yadda yadda.
then we find out that a crucial character is still alive from the first movie! surprise! bonus points for the monsters taking a big, actual shit on screen. i complained that the first movie was so dark i had trouble figuring out the action. well this director (Jon Harris, who was also the film editor on the original) must have agreed, so he lit every cave scene up to beyond believable levels. like batman's cave or a star trek set. super distracting.
anyway, there are other satisfying callbacks to the original and everything was running smoothly until the very end, where the writers took their own big shit on the script. i won't ruin it because someone will probably say "hey i loved that", but whatever. then another big twist at the very end that was made completely pointless since this movie didn't make enough $$ to demand another sequel. oh well, you had me there for a minute, dudes. 6.5 underground monster turds out of 10.
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