A group of colleagues are taken on a team-building retreat but get trapped in a cave after an earthquake occurs. The opening ad made it seem like it was going to a 'woke' PC fest, but thankfully it isn't. Demi Moore leads the cast, as a conniving, egotistical boss, named Lucy, and the rest of the cast all play their role well, each with their own traits that add to the story. As they are trapped we learn about the details of the company, that isn't what Lucy portrays it to be, and the relationships between the characters. The main issue I had with the plot is that they resort to cannibalism before they seem to have exhausted all efforts to properly look for a way out, which is probably the first thing you'd do when you are trapped in any enclosed space and your life hangs in the balance. It hasn't received the best reviews from critics, but I don't think it's trying to be that much of a 'biting commentary on modern business' that one critic thinks it was trying to be. Some of the humour is almost gross-out, such as the aforementioned cannibalism, but it all works fairly well as a black comedy without being award-winning. 2.5-3
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