Kim Ji-hoon's Sinkhole is a disaster comedy with one serious problem: The script introduces two children among the various residents who live in a doomed tenement about to get swallowed up by the earth then, like the other characters sharing their subterranean fate, abandons the kids for too long. I, for one, spent a lot of time impatiently waiting for the building's super (Cha Seung-won), the newest tenant (Park Dong-won), and two housewarming guests (Lee Kwang-soo and Kim Hye-jun) to stop griping about cell phone service and mud-covered chicken and to start searching for the two forgotten young boys, trapped in the basement parking lot with a senile grandma.
And unlike this director's previous — and highly gratifying — disaster pic The Tower, Sinkhole in undermined by jokes that never click, a love story that feels contrived, and muted tension buried under terrible CGI. Also, I realize that you have to cheat a little with lighting in a movie in which a half-dozen people find themselves submerged, miles below the earth's surface as few sun rays or moonbeams would reach them. But do you have to have your imperiled survivors scrambling around on what looks to be a multi-story stage-set? In which case... "Curtains!"
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