How can an Oscar Award winner like Cuba Gooding do a film that’s as bad as Devil’s Tomb? It’s about a squad of elite mercenaries led by Mr. Gooding who were tasked to rescue a scientist (Ron Perlman) in a bunker at the middle of the desert.
I was misled by the title and thought that it will be a horror movie. Then when I saw Cuba’s squad I thought we got ourselves a good action flick. It turns out Devil’s Tomb is a farce with a horrible storyline where elite soldiers don’t act like what they’re supposed to be.
If you enjoy zombie movies then there’s a slight chance that you’ll like Devil’s Tomb. I was just taken aback to see an A-lister like Cuba Gooding in a B movie that featured Henry Rollins as a priest. Yup, I had a hard time believing that myself.
Taryn Manning stars as the medic of the squad and she did provide some healing points for the Devil’s Tomb. I’m a True Blood fan and seeing Valerie Cruz in the movie also made my day. But aside from these two, there are no other good things I can say about this movie.
As the title says, they did find the devil in the underground bunker. What the mercenaries didn’t know is that their real mission is to destroy the bunker to keep the devil entombed. If you’re religious, then you might be scared to know that the fate of the whole world might be determined by a bunch of childish mercenaries.
Devil’s Tomb felt like a cheap imitation of Mutant Chronicles. It didn’t help that Ron Perlman played a very similar role in both movies. Just like in the Mutant Chronicles, he turned against the good guys and a girl sacrificed her life to save the day.
Devil’s Tomb is a non-religious movie about the battle of good versus evil. There can’t possibly any script to be made with that concept alone, without mixing religion into it. There might be priests in the story but all they did was run around. My advice, avoid this movie at all costs.
