It really is embarrassing to see an Oscar winner such as Cuba Gooding Jr. and other talented veterans wasting their time with such third rate material. Even horror lovers willing to check out just about anything may grow weary of this one, as it's stuff we've all seen before. It's religion / apocalypse theme nonsense (directed by Sean Connery's son Jason) with dumb, dumb characters, supposedly playing a crack Special Forces team, recruited to probe the mystery of what happened at an underground installation / archaeological dig. Cuba's character Captain Mack is the guy in charge, and it's dispiriting to see him look so weary, and clearly thinking, "Can someone please rescue me from this junk?"

The rest of the cast doesn't fare any better, despite the presence of some familiar faces. Among those on Cuba's team are Zack Ward, Jason London, and Franky G. The female cast members - Taryn Manning, Valerie Cruz, and Stephanie Jacobsen - are all attractive, but watching them fails to add much appeal to this thing. Bill Moseley, Ray Winstone, and Ron Perlman are all slumming badly here; Perlman, certainly, looks like he couldn't care less. So why should the viewer? Not even the brief nudity supplied by Holly Weber, or the casting of Henry Rollins as a priest, is really reason enough to sit through this. There is enough gore and grossness on hand to allow for some amusement.

Badly written, badly directed, and totally lacking in suspense and excitement, "The Devil's Tomb" couldn't even get up to average level, even for a B movie lover such as this viewer.

Four out of 10.

Never heard about this movie prior to actually sitting down to watch it, so I had no hopes or expectations to the movie, which I suppose was good in its own way.

The story told in "The Devil's Tomb" is, well, kind of boring. It is something that seems very much like something that has been used for another movie, somewhere, somehow, sometime. A group of elite soldiers are sent into some underground complex on a mission without any real details, and something sinister is brooding in the belly of the world. Uuhhh, so very, very spooky. Not! Actually the movie plot was very easy to follow and required very little brain activity at any time. There were no surprise or plot twists to throw you off along the way. Now, I said elite soldiers, well, let's take a moment and rephrase that, make it a bunch of ordinary soldiers, because there were so many questionable things they did that just made you wonder what kind of training they had actually received.

But, don't get me wrong. The movie is not all bad, just the story is a bit weak and not really coming off as plausible. The setting of the movie, however, was really cool. There was a sense of brooding doom around every corner, and also a good sense of claustrophobia. And these elements worked very well for the movie.

Now, I also think that they had managed to get together some pretty interesting people to play the characters in the movie. I was especially surprised when I saw Bill Moseley's name appear in the intro, and already there I was sort of looking forward to sitting through the movie. And when you finally got to see Moseley, it was all worth it. He looked so cool in this movie and played a very nice role, though it was only a small role. And I also think that Jason London was really cool in this movie, he was really living into the role and making his character stand out on the screen. And of course Henry Rollins in the role of the priest, now that was just priceless. And not forgetting to mention the lovely Stephanie Jacobsen, she was also a nice touch to the movie.

Now, you might say I forgot to mention Ron Perlman, but no, I am not a particular fan of his work, and this performance wasn't anything out of his ordinary work. And as for Cuba Gooding Jr., well again, it was just an average performance here.

I was thoroughly entertained throughout the movie, despite the lack of meat on the storyline, but there was just something about the movie that wanted you to make it all the way to the end. The ending, though, was sort of anti-climatic in the worst sense possible.

Don't expect anything grand from this movie, and you won't be disappointed. Good enough for an evening's worth of entertainment, but not solid enough for a second watching.

And as for the title of the movie, "The Devil's Tomb", wow? Without giving away too much of the story, why this title? That didn't really make any sense!

Scientist Lee Wesley (Ron Perlman) was working at an archaeological dig in a Middle East desert. Something happened and contact was lost. CIA agent Elissa Cardell (Valerie Cruz) directs a team of hardened soldiers to extract her father Wesley. Mack (Gooding Jr.) is the team leader. In the bunker, they encounter a priest with boils all over. Nickels (Zack Ward) stays behind while the rest goes down the elevator. There are earthquakes. They run into a zombie scientist who quotes scripture, knows their life history, and spits toxic blood. Doc (Taryn Manning) hallucinates and walks off. Hicks (Jason London) and Yoshi (Stephanie Jacobsen) guard their rear as Mack, Cardell, Click (Brandon Fobbs) and Hammer (Franky G) go track down Doc. They run into another zombie. The safe room opens and Father Fulton (Henry Rollins) comes out.

It starts out as a reasonable B-movie action horror. The production is pretty low budget. Director Jason Connery is the son of Sean Connery and probably got quite a few friends to do him a favor. The actors in this are all solid. That's more than what I can say about most B-movies. The action is not particularly well shot although there are lots of shooting. The horror is not particularly scary. The constant flashbacks are not necessary. The hallucinations are not well realized. Generally, it's not well made and it descends into a lot of confused mumble jumble.