Leofwine_draca Richard Pepin, a man well known in B-movie circles for his role as producer and director in the genre since the early 1980s, directs this Sci-Fi Channel nonsense about a group of robbers who enter a long abandoned mine in search of a cave filled with valuable emeralds. Along they way they rope in an innocent explorer and his family to act as their guide and inevitably all hell breaks loose.CAVED IN comes across as a cheap and rubbishy variation on the likes of THE CAVE, SANCTUM, and THE DESCENT, although it isn't as effective as any of those movies. The reason is that there are just too many preposterous elements in the story for it to either make sense or feel remotely believable.The main draw in this movie are the monsters, some nasty giant beetles which are animated via some not-bad CGI (for the most part). So far so straightforward, but then the writers had to add in some STAR WARS style laser weaponry which just comes across as silly. They should have instead focused more on making the menace more realistic instead of going down the sci-fi route.There's some rubbery gore on display here, but also a lot of bad acting. The lead is played by Christopher Atkins, who made his debut in THE BLUE LAGOON all those years back, but he's pretty wooden these days. Colm Meaney is somehow along for the ride, but the worst of the bunch is the whiny, irritating Chelan Simmons, whose character automatically drags the enjoyment factor down a notch. A shame as at the outset this has definite potential to be something interesting.

beth-415 I am getting really sick of Sci-Fi's endless parade of beyond crappy movies. I feel quite insulted by this channel's wasted resources and it makes me want to stop watching everything on it in protest. The development department must think that Sci-Fi fans will watch anything with a bug or monster in it. While Caved In is not nearly as bad as some of the Sci-Fi movies I've seen, I am utterly astounded that movies like this continue to get made. Maybe I should take 15 minutes and write a script for their next movie. If I could give this movie a negative rating I would but I suppose it's worth a 1 for having Christopher Atkins is in it. I actually thought he did a decent job with what he was given and I watched it because he was in it. He looks great, by the way. Monica Dean was pretty good too but the rest of the actors were horrid. With the exception of those two, the overacting that plagues every Sci-Fi movie didn't fail to grace this one. I have not bothered with a Sci-Fi movie in a long a time and was once again reminded why I decided to avoid them in the first place. Stupid Sci-Fi Channel....

Chaostheory62906 It is definitely one of the worst TV movies I've seen on sci-fi ever i wish i wouldn't have sat though it but ever time i got ready to walk away something interesting would happen so u could say its a good movie to watch once but thats about it I also didn't really like the idea of only the family and the one girl surviving or the fact of the gun being a Lazar. i mean come on could have made it a little more realistic but its a movie and the thought of huge bugs being around all them years and never coming up to the surface is really a stupid idea bugs dig the had all them tunnels but never been to the surface thats stupid the needed to make it seem like that could live on the surface for some reason i don't know watch it if u dare

ezzat_1983 This has got to be one of the worst movies I have seen in a while. I was severely disappointed with this movie as I'm all for watching the DVD's that only have a couple of copies on the shelf at the DVD store as they're quite often rare gems, but this was one of the exceptions.This is a classic, badly made B grade movie: Dodgy no-name, b-grade actors with terrible clichéd lines that can't act, amateur designed CG beetles that move jerkily and don't seam in with the movie at all, ghastly and unrealistic lighting (is meant to be 2000ft below ground but you can see everything like they're out in the middle of a summers day), crappy fake/unrealistic set design (I've seen better at a theatre production!), terrible fake, stupid gore shots put in only for shock value to cover the gaping fact that the plot is shockingly badly written and there is no substance to it & shocking cinematography. The director wants his face slapped! My final comment would be: if you want a good laugh at a terrible movie, get this out, otherwise, leave well alone!