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Descent

"When the world goes up in flames, they have nowhere to go but down."

When cracks in the Earth's crust large enough to swallow a city block appear, a team of scientists must go deep into the Earth to find a way to stop the destruction.

Top Cast

  • Luke Perry

    Luke Perry

    Dr. Jake Rollins

  • Natalie Brown

    Natalie Brown

    Jen

  • Michael Dorn

    Michael Dorn

    General Fielding

  • Rick Roberts

    Rick Roberts

    Dr. Palmer Drake

  • Marie Ward

    Marie Ward

    Dr. Karen West

  • Mimi Kuzyk

    Mimi Kuzyk

    Marsha Crawford

  • Michael Teigen

    Michael Teigen

    Black

  • Mike Realba

    Mike Realba

    Decker

  • Adam Frost

    Adam Frost

    Captain Haywood

Overview

When cracks in the Earth's crust large enough to swallow a city block appear, a team of scientists must go deep into the Earth to find a way to stop the destruction.

Rating

5.0 / 10
30 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Apr 4, 2022

    Luckily the Ring of Fire heats up - because precious little else does in this really rather poor vehicle for "90210" and "Buffy" star Luke Perry. As he aged, he lost his boyish good looks and sadly the acting talent left behind was simply nowhere near enough to hold this rather fanciful sci-fi together. To be fair, he is not helped by a really indifferent bunch of C-listers in support. Indeed Adam Frost ("Capt. Hayward") doesn't look like he has started to shave yet and Natalie brown just doesn't cut it as scientist "Jen". The plot is peppered with historical personal loathing issues and if anyone says "we have a problem" one more time...? I counted eight times as their mechanised journey into the planet's core to detonate some bombs to stop us being boiled/baked/steamed alive dragged on for what seemed like an eternity. The CGI is very basic and all in all this is just sci-fi channel fodder for some past his use by date eye-candy. Fortunately, there is the extra "s" in the title...

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