Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Movie review: 7 Guardians of the Tomb


 A team of scientists is sent into an ancient cave in search of a colleague who disappeared after discovering the 2000 year old burial chamber of a Chinese Emperor. What they don't know is the discovery released a threat nobody expected.

Bingbing Li (Jia), Kellan Lutz (Jack), Kelsey Grammer (Mason), Chun Wu (Luke), Shane Jacobson (Gary), Stef Dawson (Piper), Jason Chong (Chen), Ryan Johnson (Ethan), Yasmin Kassim (Lisa), Tim Draxl (Andrew).

7 Guardians of the Tomb launches with scientists in an ancient cave discovering a 2000 year old tomb, awakening evil by accident, and then disappearing. Next a team of scientists is sent in to find the original missing scientists. From there the film is your basic action horror as the scientists realize there is something evil in the cave; man-eating spiders. The remainder of the film follows the group as they struggle to innovate a defense against the spiders and survive.

Acting was mediocre here. Li was okay, as was Lutz, and both seemed to work well with others. Grammer was an interesting choice and did pretty good but he wasn't enough to carry the film. Wu, Jacobson, Dawson and the remainder of the cast were okay. Overall it felt like the cast didn't have a lot of energy.

Camera work, sets, and backgrounds were good and surprisingly most scenes were clear despite being in a dark cave. Effects and CGI were good for the most part with a few overdone scenes. Dialogue was often repetitive and mundane. Sound and soundtrack are okay.

Overall this is a mild action horror flick that feels like a poor copy of better done flicks with the same theme. The film lacks energy and depth beyond being a cookie-cutter monster film.

With violence, gore, and disturbing images, this should be fine for teens and above.

Released: 2018
Reviewed: 12.30.20
Star rating: 3 out of 5
Genre: Action, Horror, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action Horror

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