The Silver Screen

‘Sanctum’ – the second best ‘trapped-in-a-cave’ movie

3-D effects do little to accentuate the action in this caving romp

"Sanctum" is an intermittently exciting, but ultimately forgettable, action adventure movie that stakes a very strong claim on the title of "second-best trapped-in-a-cave movie of the last six months." If you feel "127 Hours" would've been a better film if James Franco had had five or six other people down in the cave with him to bicker with, "Sanctum" is the movie for you. Executive-produced by James Cameron, which presumably means he let them use his 3-D cameras, and he visited the set once or twice, "Sanctum" was directed by Alister Grierson and stars Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wyllie and Rhys Wakefield. No, I've never heard of any of those people, either. The film, based on a true story experienced by co-…