A film about letting the abyss take you in the wake of tragedy, sure sure, but also a film about inevitability and futility. The world would be a tiny a bit better without the hand-holding U.S. ending, and the sequel in enabled. It speaks to The Descent’s supremacy that neither mars the film overall. Often praised for its claustrophobia, there is a great synergy of tension weaving throughout from the very first frame, mostly not overtly, until the mighty payoff of the climax and an ending (the U.K. ending) that could not (should not) have been any other way to tell a complete, heart-wrenching story.
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