Very disappointing...

The acting in this movie is really good.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Yeah, this film is bad. Here is a sample from the discussion board for this film:"me an my friend watched this about a year back watching it again now as i type this movie is amazing i would totally go to one of those partys!! the end was amazing i really felt bad for her it was *beep* what happened lets say that it was so good that me an my friend had to have a ciggarette in -5 dagree weather and discuss the film that doesn't happen but once in a blue moon it was one of the best movies we have watched together i highly recremend it"If you don't see anything wrong in the spelling and grammar of the quote above then it is possible that you will love this film. I warn everybody else that the quote above has been thought out better, has fewer mistakes, makes more sense, is more intelligent and ultimately even closer to being an actual work of art than the piece of sh!t film it refers to. I may not agree with the opinion stated therein, but I found the post itself to be approximately 6000x more entertaining and worthwhile than the film.

A vacuous American teenager popping anti-depressants goes to Paris to stay with her sister. This sister (claimed to be a student at the Sorbonne) turns out to be equally vacuous, with added unpleasantness and stupidity. The thought that either girl would gain anything by staying in Paris is absurd. They spend their time shopping and talking like the 'guests' from Big Brother. They'd have done the same in Newark or Bolton.The blonde sister (the one from the Sorbonne) takes her dark sister (the depressing one) to a really groovy club called CATACOMBS - believe it or not, it's an illegal club set up by a young 'philosopher' who says fatuous things like 'Death is spectacle.' (He's no Sartre.) The club is situated in... wait for it... the actual catacombs under the Paris streets. Is that creepy and weird or not? Not.Anyway, the two girls meet some French boys and drink absinthe. They dance around with a crowd of other people. Before we know it, the dark, depressing girl is lost in the catacombs and is being chased by a mad axeman wearing a goat mask... She runs around in the catacombs for the rest of the film. We're supposed to be getting REALLY SCARED. I was looking forward to being terrified or at least mildly frightened - but nothing much happened except an increasing feeling of ennui.The dark girl's lines are of the 'f**k! s**t! help! oh God is anyone there?' variety. Eventually she meets a French man called Henri (like many American tourists she is unable to pronounce this and insists on calling him 'Henry' - as if he were Ray Liotta in 'Goodfellas'). 'Henry' helps her, but she simply ignores the fact that he can only speak French and she only English. She keeps asking him dumb questions in English and shows her gratitude to her rescuer by calling him 'asshole' and 'jerk' when things go wrong. Her intelligence really shows through when 'Henry' produces what a 5-year old can see is a street map of Paris. Our 'heroine' asks, 'What's that? Is it a map? IT'S A STREET MAP!' When 'Henry' suggests a way of walking through the catacombs to escape from the man with the goat mask, all the heroine can do is to complain,'Oh my God, it's so FAR!' Perhaps she thought she could phone for a cab instead - or get the subway.Hardly surprisingly, there are no 'stars' in this grand entertainment. It isn't horrific in the least. The ending is quite clever, but to sit through the preceding hour and half to get there is asking too much of anyone. If you want a stylish, witty, and genuinely disturbing film set in the sewers and underground railways of London, watch Gary Sherman's DEATHLINE from the early Seventies.This film was dead before anyone stepped foot in the catacombs. Less frightening than an international webcast by Lyndon Larouche - and nowhere nearly so funny...

...of being trapped in the catacombs of Paris, final resting place of millions of bones. Shannyn "A Knight's Tale" Sossamon plays a beautiful wallflower type (yeah, right, I know) who comes to Paris at the invite of her Sorbonne-attending sister (yeah, right), played by Alecia "Pink" Moore, who has no business pretending to be an actress. The rest of the cast are Eastern European unknowns, which is amusing given the film is ostensibly set underneath the City of Lights. Why didn't they just stick with being a cheap rip-off of "Phantom of the Opera" or something more marketable? Where was the love interest? Why should we care about this poor little dimbulb? How was it that someone actually thought Pink could act? Or that audiences enjoy extended exposure to strobe lighting? Or that mobile ad-hoc parties can be held in the Parisian catacombs on a regular basis? It's a limp story, shot well enough by Maxime "The Hills Have Eyes" Alexandre, spliced to within an inch of its life by fledgling editor Josh Rifkin, and directed with leaden hands by David "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" Elliot and neophyte Tomm Coker. Mr. Coker should stick with comic books. I haven't seen "G.I. Joe..." and don't intend to be looking for it, so the jury remains out on Mr. Elliot.Nevertheless, the verdict is clear on "Catacombs." Good for Sossamon geeks and insomniac viewing only, and preferably for free. Ill-advised for rental, no pity for purchase. This one's a stinker. Gets a four from me strictly for showing what can be done with a limited budget; otherwise it's a deuce or worse.

As a lover of the horror genre I am tired of films that rely on blood and gore to not scare but simply gross out the viewer, I prefer films that work on more of a psychological level and this one definitely does. It starts of fast with two sisters visiting each other in Paris, They decide to go to a party in the catacombs under the city and all hell breaks loose. The acting was very good for a horror film and I thought that the atmosphere was very well done and made the film very creepy. The direction was a little erratic at times and I couldn't always follow what was going on but other than that the film was the most disturbing movie I have seen since The Exorcist.