![]() 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 lad has far more time for Carl (why, Ioan Gruffudd, why?), the feckless, glamorous billionaire who financed the operation.The 3D 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. Who could have imagined that the eerie, magnificent bowels of the earth contained such toxic levels of clunky exposition and rubbish plotting? Who knew anyone would want to remakeĪt the heart of a very sketchy “drama” we find young Bieber- alike Josh (Rhys Wakefield), a teenager who has been shanghaied by grizzled, estranged diver dad Frank (Richard Roxburgh) into a perilous expedition. Sanctumtrades on geek boy facts, technical specs and pure testosterone.īased on the xtreme(!) caving explorations of Cameron's longtime collaborator, Andrew Wight, the film takes us on a journey through the unknown. Set within the deadly confines of The Biggest Cave In The World (the Esa'ala system in the South Pacific, apparently), You can see why the bearded box- office champ was an eager executive producer. "JAMES CAMERON'S SANCTUM" trumpets the publicity for this half-arsed potholing adventure. Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Richard Roxburgh, Alice Parkinson, Rhys Wakefield, Dan Wyllie 15A cert, gen release, 109 min
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