InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

areatw 'The Hole' looked like an interesting and different thriller, featuring a young and relatively unknown Keira Knightley. After a promising, intriguing start, 'The Hole' soon loses its direction, resembling a cheap, low budget horror film with over the top drama and some far-fetched scenarios.It's also surprisingly unexciting for a so-called 'thriller'. A plot like this should have you gripped, but it doesn't, probably because at no point does any of it feel real. There are plot holes aplenty, and I got the impression at times that even the film had no idea what it wanted to do next.Overall, 'The Hole' is a below average, poorly thought out film that fails to live up to its 'thriller' label. It feels cheap, unexciting and lacks any sort of direction.

gavin6942 Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.The film stars Thora Birch, whose headlining credit and highly publicized seven figure salary was attributed to her appearance in "American Beauty". It also features Keira Knightley, in her first significant role in a feature film. Birch, for some reason, is British here, and is presented in an overly sexual role rather than the geeky persona we loved in "Ghost World". Knightley has a secondary or supporting role, but fans may want to check this out as her pre-big break film.Worthy of note is that Embeth Davidtz also appears. She has gone on to better things, but horror fans will always know her for "Army of Darkness".

stef-graf Another wicked from the Uk directors....Its a sort of a movie, where you love and hate the characters, I loved Keira and hated the main girl (dont know her name)..that is the strength of a movie where you start liking or hating the character...I have only issues with the title, had it been "The Bitch"...I would've given it 10stars...good movie with a good predictable twist.... I wonder where all those good Brit Flicks have gone, my fav actor Danny dyer and Keira are not much seen in the Brit Flicks as I believe that Uk cinema is very real and close to the reality unlike the Hollywood which is full of CGI and same stories that are much larger than life, where as Brit cinema is very close to everyday routine we witness around us..

Robert J. Maxwell Rather unpleasant but gripping story of four teen-aged school kids trapped in an old underground bunker in the kind of "densely wooded area" where all dead bodies are found.The kids have been trying to escape a field trip to Wales and entered the bunker with plenty of booze, planning a three-day debauch. Parties, however, can't last forever, as I've had opportunities to discover, and after the first night they're hung over and, to add to their misery, the iron door at the top of the bunker slams shut and is locked.Three days later, Thora Birch, the lone survivor, stumbles into the arms of the authorities, in shock, her clothing ripped. The three bodies are removed from the vault and Birch tells her sad tale to the shrink, Embeth Davidtz. The story of what happened emerges in several flashbacks as Birch gradually loosens up. I guess I won't reveal the details, due to legal confidentiality.The movie depends largely on Thora Birch and she's quite good as the sullen but conniving school outcast, cum murderess. She plain, but not too plain -- just plain enough to pass for an outcast, and her grooming is semi-Goth. The two horny boys are dispensable. Kiera Knightley is a stunning and flirtatious fox who oozes oestrus. Next to her, anybody would look plain. Both boys throw themselves on her and almost get his jeans off but not quite, worse luck. Too bad, what happens to her.Neither of the young girls is quite as attractive -- not JUST sexy -- as Embeth Davidtz, the earnest and puzzled shrink who is trying to make sense out of this jigsaw puzzle tale. Her Brit accent sounds flawless to my alien ears. Davidtz was born in Indiana but was moved at an early age to South Africa and I suppose that helped. By the end, the cunning Birch has turned suspicion towards Davidtz.If there's a problem with the movie it's that the milieu -- that awful and decrepit underground bunker -- is so dismal. What a depressing place to spend a three-day holiday. And the decor is a catastrophe. The toilets don't work and one of them winds up filled with maggots.I watched it with curiosity and some interest but I wouldn't go through it again.