The Abyss

"Oh no! We're in a dangerous situation and could die at any moment. What do we do?" "This is the perfect time to have a long talk about our relationship!"

Rinse, and repeat... rinse... and repeat.

Half way through I was wishing for everyone to fall into the abyss. It just wasn't convincing at all. The characters were just too bland and predictable. There was more relationship drama than actual disaster drama, which was made even more awkward by the fact they all seem so disconnected from each other. None of these people were likeable or remotely interesting. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen, but it never came.

Just simply ... boring.

I really was excited to hear about this movie, both as it's the first ever Swedish catastrophe movie, but also that it takes place in the unique town of beautiful Kiruna.

The film is based on an actual possible event. The town of Kiruna is in the process of being moved three kilometers away from where it's situated today due to that the substantial mining underneath is leading to the town's sinking. And moving a town with 23.000 inhabitants is a huge task.

I also had great hopes as I heard talented Tuva Novotny was the lead actress, as an actor always doing well.

The plot is that Novotny's character is in charge of safety in the mines, when the ground it starting to falter around them.

But disappointment was huge both to see silly instructing, bad acting (if not from Novotny) and cliché after cliché, and rather stupid action.

I'm afraid to say that the story is not at all exciting, and even worse, it's boring.

I take it that the Swedes are inspired by the many great catastrope movies coming out of Norway since 2011 (The Wave, The Quake, The Tunnel, The Burning Sea, Troll, People in the sun, Pioneer, etc) but this is not reaching up to any of them.

This movie had potentially been really good if it wasn't a lot of family drama in it.

The bad language between young teenagers in the movie gives a bad message to viewers to.

It had some thrilling moments but nothing more.

This was a bad attempt to replicate other disaster movies.

I am sorry to say but I can't recommend this film at all.

There are better ways to spend money on theatre this days.

It pains me to see good actors in a bad picture.

I love Tuva and she has great potential if she only get the chance.

To summarize this movie I have to say that it lacked depth and it was quite messy.

Tuva is a swedish amazon. Her performance in this movie is splendid and I love her for it. Made me happy I spent my money going to this movie.

I was less impressed by the story. Kiruna is falling apart. That is a fact, and the story could hade been so much... more. I just expected more. The unnecessary relationshipgoo was, well, a pointless mess that didn't go well with the rest of the story.

An extra star for the effects and one more for the scenery shoots. The nature surronding Kiruna is amazing so is the new firehouse.

What the movie lack in story it gains in curse words. As Cap would have said: "Language!"

Awful movie in all categories. Extremely bad acting, not compelling story, mediocre effects, dialogues are incredible mediocre. Film students could have done a greater job. Please learn with the Americans, koreans, and even the chinese.

First part of the film was very weak, character development was not there, the movie seemed to be a collage of scenes without any sequence. The 2 disaster scenes, mine and house were very basic and basically to be considered as the main parr of the film they were very unintersting. The movie was calling for a fast foward button all the time. Very excruciating to watch. I will give it a 4 to be fair.