Not at all worth my time. Didn't believe the lead young actress as the kind of character she was playing AT ALL, and the entire premise of this movie depended on her selling the attributes of the girl she was playing...and i didn't believe her or her performance for a minute. Really rather weak acting from most frankly, so for me NONE of the atmospheric tension, threat or menace was ever achieved. I can tell the movie this WANTED to be, but nobody in the cast was up to the task imho.

This was a well thought out and well executed movie. At first blush, the concept of 4 bratty teens stuck in a bunker seems awful, but the reality is quite the opposite!Said 4 snotty - er, bratty - teens are keen to avoid a school trip (how droll!), and end up seeking shelter from monotony in an old bunker. It is once they are unable to get out that things get interesting, straining, and much less enjoyable than a schoolyard trip!Good acting and camera work stops it from being tedious - the relationships and character development make it a thrilling movie. It is a great movie that is definitely worth your time, and I'd highly recommend.

"The Hole" was recommended to me by a friend who read my review for the film "Cry Wolf". She said I'd like it, and she was right on the spot. While this is only my opinion, I think The Hole is a great film.Indeed, like "Cry Wolf", "The Hole" is more of a psychological Thriller than Horror. It doesn't have Slasher style chase, gruesome murders or gore, and there is very little blood. Instead, this film keeps you confused and guessing, enough to have multiple debates here on IMDb as to which parts are real and which aren't. The Hole is about deception and misleading, both for the protagonists and us the spectators.The acting is very good, not only by Thora Birch (lovely as always) but by the entire cast. Very smart screen writing, good enough to make me want to get my hands on the novel by which the film is inspired. You won't know what has really happened until the end, and even then some parts remain debatable. This film shows again that a change in perspective can change everything, even when you think you have things figured out.All in all, while not a masterpiece, The Hole is very enjoyable and definitely worth watching!

A fairly uninteresting British thriller. It starts off promisingly enough, throwing four teenagers into an eerie location and watching what happens. An unreliable narrator in the form of American BEAUTY's Thora Birch is added to the mix to keep the viewer feeling that what we see on screen may not be the actual truth. But the promising opening sequence which reveals a bloodied Birch emerging screaming from the titular pit turns out to be somewhat misleading, as the film is never as exciting or suspenseful as it should be.One of the problems lies in the uninteresting characters. Birch struggles with the complexity of her lead, but all too often she just seems whiny and a bit sullen. Desmond Harrington is a one-note bore, and Laurence Fox has little to work with after being saddled with a 'posh boy' persona. By contrast, a pre-stardom Keira Knightley is the 'posh girl', but watching her acting you can't really work out how she became a mega-star in just a few years. Seasoned performers like Embeth Davidtz and Steven Waddington are wasted.For much of the running time, we're left with scenes of the foursome fighting, drinking, shouting and generally being teenagers. There's little sense of menace and somehow the plight of the characters just doesn't ring that true; not once did I see them fully explore their surroundings to see if there was another escape route. The format of the film also doesn't work very well, with the cross-cutting of the detective scenes after the event failing to generate any suspense. Instead of wanting to find out what really happened, I just felt a bit bored. Of all the 'trapped in a room' type films of the last decade or so, THE HOLE, along with Exam, is one of the least interesting out there.