It is a performances centric movie

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This felt like a 'The Descent' wannabe, only very theatrical and not very believable. Sam Hazeldine was by far the best actor, as I found the rest very mediocre, as if they didn't really believe in the film themselves. The make-up effects are so clearly B-movie, but this was low budget after all, so I'll just convince myself they did the best with what they had. The plot and execution thereof, though, was not credible. And what an absolutely stupid ending! The abrupt ending WILL make you feel you've wasted your time watching this.

I wanted to watch a horror movie yesterday and after a quick search I chose Dead Mine. Well,the "horror in a mine" concept is nothing rare so I didn't expect to encounter something new plot wise to begin with. What I was expecting to see in an Indonesian B-movie like this were some nice killing scenes and probably some scary or intense moments. Also, most horror B-movies nowadays usually make up for their "bad" plot with lots of blood and gore but that's not the case here. This movie isn't much scary either. Even at moments that the protagonists are hunted down and the watcher should feel the intensity of it the director just failed to make it happen.Coming to the story now, I have to say it was not that bad.It actually had more potential than it delivered if I can say that. Of course, there are cliché characters placed here and there but it happens to most movies(I even found myself liking the character of Warren's gf) .The plot is quite good at first(not something entirely fresh but decent) and seems like it might lead somewhere good. Still the bad pace, the lack of attention to detail and the horrible 15-20 last mins of the movie where the story goes off track ruin the effort made before.I know that what I've said so far will probably make you not wanting to watch this movie at all but its not entirely unwatchable. It's still better than many movies out there. So if you like horror movies and got nothing else to watch give it a try. It will be a decent one-time watch, though the last part of the movie might leave you with a bad aftertaste like in my case.

I remember the first time I saw the poster for this movie, and I decided to stay clear of the movie, believing it to be something in the likes of the "Chernobyl Diaries" movie also from 2012, as the poster is much alike, and that "Chernobyl Diaries" movie was just abysmal.Then come 2013 and I found out that Joe Taslim is in this movie, so my interest was instantly caught, and I decided to give the movie a go regardless of prior assumptions.And now having seen it, I sit here with a really bad taste in my mouth. The movie starts out well enough, but then it just peaks and becomes too much, and the movie just spiraled out of control and everything just fell to the floor.The story is about a group of hired soldiers led by a treasure hunter to seek out the fabled Yamashita's Gold treasure. As the group becomes trapped inside an old mine dating back to World War II, they quickly figure out that they are not alone in the dark mine.Right, well the story did have potential to be interesting and it did start out well enough and promising enough. But then suddenly after the first revealings of what has been lurking around in the long-abandoned mine, then suddenly director Steven Sheil decided to throw in three squads of what I assume to be reanimated dead Japanese Bushido samurai warriors. And that is when the line snapped for the movie. Once these were introduced, the movie just went from an adequate action horror movie to a laughable attempt at an action horror movie. It was just awful and abysmal to witness. These animated samurai warriors totally killed any shred of enjoyment and entertainment that the movie had.As for the acting, then people were doing good enough jobs with their given roles. And as I mentioned earlier, then it was because of Joe Taslim that I decided to give this movie a chance. Unfortunately his role wasn't all that big, much to my disappointment.It should be said that the movie actually does fare well on the effects and creature make-up department. Thumbs up for that, at least.I supposed this abandoned mine should never have been opened, and then at least I wouldn't have wasted 87 minutes watching it.

I have to say that this movie did surprise me in the end. Sure, it is below average when it comes to acting and character development, but I've seen way more worse.Two things I appreciated about this movie: one is the fact that they used Japanese language, and not some flimsy hybrid English stray hobo slang thing with the Japanese actors; two, the attention to details and a very well organized set and environment.Thou the characters in the movie were very poor developed and the lines were just dull, the action did compensate for that loss. As I said, the ending did surprise me, a lot in fact, because it wasn't predictable and it kind of showed that the main characters weren't indestructible and did face a dangerous situation and certain death.The plot is there, not very well explained but it does give a proportion of reality to the events, but, in the same time, it may be also stretched a bit. Let's be serious, those soldiers didn't move for 70 years and when a stupid guy enters a freaking sand circle they all weak up ready for action!? I give it a 7/10 just because it has potential and it did kept me watching all the scenes without making me want to skip faster to the ending. I hope this movie director/writer is just starting his career and will learn to get better actors, for his future projects, because his ideas for horror genre could make him the next best thing.