Not meaning to say THE DESCENT has a gimmick-ending or anything — we don’t change perspective and slowly become aware that these are just action figures in a toy bin. Hey I just watched part two for the first time and one thing you left out that didn’t make any since was in the first one. The team members are sent down via an old mine shaft operated by the old… Rios gets a weird look on her face from seeing it but i guess just shrugs it off :/. (Insert Total Recall reference here.). IMO they were planning for another sequel ‘D3- The Crawlers and OG are Family’ ! She is taken to a hospital, where it is revealed some of the blood on her matches that of Juno Kaplan (Natalie Mendoza). They manage to fight them off, but Juno is mortally wounded in the fight. Another interpretation of this ending is that Sarah has simply lost the will to survive, even if there is a chance to get out. We don’t know, because the movie never tell us! Greg is taken out by the crawlers, but the girls are left to fight off these monsters. Thanks, IAC. In the end, Sarah wakes up at the bottom of the cave, crawls out, and makes her way back to the car. Every Canceled DCEU Movie Set Up In Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Descent 2: Ending & Sarah's Fate Explained. It had too little character development, it made too many mistakes, the chilling atmosphere that made the first film great is all but gone, and the ending does nothing but leave a foul taste in your mouth. For some reason, this one looks considerably more decayed than the one they encountered earlier, even though they would’ve died within minutes of each other. When it finally did show up, it did so at an unpredictable moment and it scared the shit out of me. THE DESCENT (2005) Ending & Alternate Ending Explained! ending of The Descent: Part 2? They don’t actually show the attack. Share. As they make their way through the mines toward the caves where Sarah and her friends were trapped, she has occasional flashbacks and slowly regains her memory. So Sarah losing a year in this movie for such a short time, totally possible. Why? Despite Sarah’s deteriorated mental state and the complaints of Rios and Sarah’s doctor, he drags her along. Not only does The Descent 2 ending makes no sense, it erases the plot of the entire movie. 2- The scene where the dog disappears in the shack, and the camera edges slowly towards the door to await the dog jumping out at the camera ? I have to say that while it does seem a bit of a stretch that she survived the end of the first film, I’ll give credit where credit is due: They did a good job with her character here. They’re pretty much just crawler fodder. One would think the director, Jon Harris, would have a better grasp of this since he was an editor for the first film. OMG! I saw The Descent in theaters back in 2006, and I remember liking it quite a bit. Sadly, in the final moments of the movie, Ed Oswald, the mineshaft's operator, catches Rios and throws her back into the mine. In the third one it could be a dream on of them is having and how 2 ended and then show a different scence as the real ending.Not sure if this is significant but the OG winks at Rios when he watches them go down. Unfortunately, Sarah is unable to save Juno, who ends up being fatally sliced open by the main crawler. That’s not easy to do. So how the fuck did junk get a pick through the leg if she dreamed it. Gore for the sake of gore and completely nonsensical. Looks like theyre setting it up for another movie. Perhaps the creatures are his grandfathers’ descendants, meaning they are family to him. It’s a very good place to start, or so I’ve been told. So she pulls out her phone to call for help (still works, that N81 is a tank! That’s a lot to swallow. This wasn’t the case with The Descent. Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits. I don’t know if I should go so far as to say that Jon Harris needs to stick to what he knows how to do and go back to editing. Second, Rios goes through a rather abrupt character change here that I’m really not buying. moviebuff. He did more than just operate the elevator and hit Rios in the head with a shovel. He guides the crew to the mine entrance and tells a story about how his grandfather used to be a miner, and one day he entered the mine and never came back. ( Log Out /  Caves tend to have water. The American ending saddles the film with an aimless shock scare. Didn’t he die in the same car accident? The owls are not what they seem. We don’t know right away what’s in the pool that they end up in. They start sneaking their way toward the light, but as they get close, something suddenly reaches up and grabs Juno:  It’s Dan! Let’s start at the beginning. That’s just one of many deliriously funny moments, We laughed the whole way through and assumed it was camp, but I can’t find anyone who agrees with this. With Michael J. Reynolds, Shauna Macdonald, Jessika Williams, Douglas Hodge. Her thoughts carry her to a touching reunion with her daughter; a foresight that, in the light of all the horror she has experienced, may even be preferable to survival. Seriously? US test audiences found the original ending too bleak and hopeless, so the studio worked with Marshall to come up with a compromise. There’s no reason, no motive, no explanation, nothing! How the hell is Dan still alive after falling down from the top with the crawler as you mentioned, this is a joke and how come the OG was never shown in the first part and if he has to feed the crawlers, why can’t he feed them his own body lol since he was trying to feed them Poor Officer Rios. As the crawler drags his corpse away, in footage that is quite clearly sped up for reasons unknown to me, Sarah sneaks up and grabs his backpack. Firstly, I need to disclose something. That made me suspicious about him and I figured with that one gesture no one would survive. And Sarah being the only person to come out alive and them to go back and make it to the end and die. It also leaves the protagonist alive, though, which is probably why Descent 2 follows that same American ending (mostly. The Descent 2 is the sequel to The Descent, ... and they inadvertently rescue Sarah and cue .. same old crap. We have no background on this character whatsoever. Once i saw that i figured thats how it would end. Sarah tries to draw the rest of the crawlers' attention to herself so at least Rios can escape. Now it makes sense. The moment when they first encounter one of the “crawlers” face-to-face came out of nowhere and totally caught me off guard. can anyone explain the ending? Wait, hang on a minute! But this was not a good start for his directorial career. Near the beginning when the dog was searching the abandoned mine building, OG picked up a pipe and it looked like he was going to kill that sheriffs deputy if he needed to cover up something the dog found. Click the button below to start this article in quick view. While I don’t see a problem with making A sequel, IMO, it’s a BAD sequel. When you mentioned Greg who was still alive at the end after his fall. remember she woke up cause she dreamed attacking junk in first one. Do they have the ability to teleport now? Review: “The Descent, part 2” *WARNING: SPOILERS*. All the blood pooled which is why she was purple and bloated and extra gross. Idk if that has something to do on why he threw Rios in the cave but it’s a slight chance it has something to do with that. She remembered/thought he’d daught was alive because she kept hallucinating about her in the caves. We don’t see him again until the very end, but I’ll get to that later. The rescue mission to find Sarah's friends turns sour very quickly and Dan and Cath, two of the trained spelunkers who have been assembled for the mission are the first to meet their ends by the crawlers. The last scene is this same guy feeding Rios to the creatures. - YouTube. I’d really like to know how they could have thought this ending would work. A possible explanation is the guy made a comment before pressing the button about how his grandfather was a miner, went down and never came back. If you remember from the first movie, Juno jumps off the same ledge and at the bottom is a pool of water, and she survived. So Dan being alive is plausible. It’s doubtful that Greg would’ve put it in his pack since he was holding it while he was attacked. Rios has her phone in a water-proof case. She also has trouble adjusting to the brightness of the Sheriff’s flashlight after being in the dark for so long, and is limping considerably due to the leg injury Sarah gave her. This is a really weak attempt at an emotional moment, and I have to call bullshit. Presumably she grabs the camera as well since she has it in a later scene, though we never actually see her pick it up. I was quite surprised when I found out that a direct-to-DVD sequel had been released. When I started writing this review, my initial mindset was that the movie was so-so, but the ending ruined what could have otherwise been a (barely) passable horror flick. They know this because they find one of their bodies which still has the video camera that captured the event, and Greg watches the scene that made me jump in the first film. Favorite Answer. ^ you got Dan and Greg mixed up. So How in the world is she alive in the second part when she is suppose to be dead oh my God! From here on, the crew are split up into a few groups, and the rest of the film is people fighting with, hiding from, or fleeing the crawlers. I totally agree with your points. She then shows Juno the necklace that Beth took from Juno when she accidently killed Beth and left her to die. ( Log Out /  Roll credits. If that old man was trying to cover up the existence of these creatures for whatever-the-fuck reason, why would he bring Sarah to the hospital at the beginning in the … The ending was absolutely unbelievably disappointing. Geez, are they really going to recycle the cave-in from the first movie? It would have been better to be left questioning her sanity/what really happened-was she the monsters sort of way – rather than a dreamy mommy gets it in the end. DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUUUUUH! Cath makes it across and appears to be free and clear, but then she’s immediately attacked by another crawler and killed. They also do a test of the blood on her clothes and discover that it’s A+, the same blood type as her friend Juno (the one who slept with her husband if you don’t remember or didn’t see the first film). A one-stop shop for all things video games. Plus Nokia. I have, and it didn’t fucking work afterwords! How the fuck is he still alive after that huge fall? Part 2 starts right where part 1 left off.