Somehow I cannot find the right words to describe Sanctum. A few hours after coming out of the screening room and I still feel trapped miles below the surface of the Earth; I still feel as if someone forced their hand down my throat clenched my stomach with their fist and didn’t let go. This is a painfully visceral movie. But I am still in awe of the sights I just experience; I just saw heaven and hell within the same movie. This is an exhilarating thrill of a movie.
It is both an effective and breathtaking (latterly and figuratively) movie. Sadly, embarrassingly bad dialogue and flat characters bring all of this crashing down nearly to B-movie levels. But you know what?
I didn’t care.
