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Title: An exciting thriller that is not a punishment to watch
Review: Unlike most hostage movies, especially those involving children, where the story concerns the rescuers who find the hostages and free them, in this story, the children and their teacher engineer their own escape from a cave, are caught again and manage their own escape again. In the end, they fight it out with the bad guys and win! And all this is done in a quite believable way.The children are completely believable in their performances, and there are about a dozen children.The only flaw in this neatly done movie is a striving after significance at the very end, where the filmmaker tries to turn it into a Lord of the Flies. But what can you expect? It's an Australian film. It doesn't hurt the movie because the story has been completed by that time.
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