

The film lost money domestically and if not for the foreign box office, it would have been a major loser at the box office. Director Alister Grierson delivered a cross between The Descent and Deep Blue Sea. The studio deserves some of the blame for this dreadful film because it played up the "James Cameron" angle so much that people were expecting a cross between the Abyss (the greatest underwater film ever made) and Avatar. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out.Karen Dahlstom's review of Sanctum pretty much hit the stalagmite on the head, but I disagree with her on one point there was some suspense - It was suspenseful waiting to see how all of the annoying characters were going to die. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team-including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)-are forced to radically alter plans. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. 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. The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth.
