Best movie ever!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Anthony Waller applies his coruscating wit and insight to a horrific story involving a drilling project that breaks through to the very chambers of Hell itself. This is a quite powerful film, well written, intelligent, and deeply disturbing. Based upon a fake urban legend that purported to announce that a Siberian mission to drill nine miles down had discovered Hell and the cries of the suffering souls could be heard over microphones lowered into the earth, the motion picture expands and enhances that scenario. The imagery is haunting and the location shooting creates an environment of overwhelming dread and stunning intensity. As a film, it breaks through the conventions of the horror genre and provides gripping evidence that the existence of evil, if not Hell, is all too real.

We watched an interesting, yet flawed horror film last night called 'Nine Miles Down'. The premise is that an oil rig drilling farther down than ever before may have reached Hell or some other world. They detect what sounds like countless people moaning in pain and agony. The drilling crew disappears and one security man is sent out to see why. He does meet one survivor, but is she real or is she a demonic seductress from hell sent to steal his soul? The film had great potential based on the premise of finding hell, if only it was directed and written properly. It's one of those films that leaves it up to the viewer at the end as to what really happened.

Are film-makers taught in school, that they can only use women, who look like models in their films? Or are sexual favors exchanged? Did only blonds answer the casting call for this film? I just get tired of this emphasis on looks, especially for women. I guess, they don't think, that an audience could stand watching a normal person for an hour and an half? A blond model in skimpy shorts in the Sahara! A blond model at the switchboard! A blond model in the flash- backs! AAAAAAAieeeeee!!!! Even the "supposedly" great Alfred Hitchcock, stuck blond models in all his later movies. I guess 'cause sex sells . . . Other than that, the movie was well done, with a good deal of suspense.

I'm tempted to give this a higher rating than I think it deserves simply because of some of the hate I'm seeing in the reviews. No, this isn't a blockbuster and it won't win any awards but as a B-movie it works well enough. The acting and story are decent and the theme is intriguing. Namely, is Hell a real place or something we create in our own minds?My main complaint is about the nudity. I lost count of how many times the male star's butt was on-screen, sometimes for several seconds. At least there was a very brief shot of the female star's behind as some recompense but it was too little too late.In short, this isn't an action or even a real horror film and it can be confusing, but in the end I liked it. Compared to a lot of junk I've had to pay to sit through at theaters, this was worth a viewing.