Sanctum Review

Messages: The movie's major theme involves the struggle to overcome the odds and survive. The characters must learn to work together and solve new problems at every turn. The secondary theme involves an emotionally distant father and his son finding a connection. But not everyone learns a lesson here ... or even survives.

Role models: Frank -- the older, experienced explorer -- has learned to shut off his emotions, putting raw survival ahead of everything else. He's a good man to have in an emergency but not the best person if you want someone to trust or talk with. But over the course of the film, he remembers what it's like to be human and to empathize with others.

Violence: Characters die in horrible ways, from bashing their heads on rocks to drowning. Viewers see bloated corpses and blood, and characters make gurgling sounds as they choke on blood. One character catches on fire. Characters also fight and squabble every so often, and there's one knockdown brawl with fatalities.

Sex: One character brings his girlfriend to the caves; she wears revealing clothing from time to time. Also a small amount of sexual innuendo.

Language: Heavy language includes many uses of both "f--k" and "s--t." Also "ass" "a--hole," "c--k," "damn," "goddamn," "oh my God," "hell," and more. One character raises a middle finger.

Consumerism: Not an issue

Drinking, drugs and smoking: A minor character is briefly seen smoking. A major character brings a bottle of hard liquor down into the cave; characters occasionally drink from it during the movie's first third, but no one gets drunk.