First of all, the deputy told Sarah that she and her friends went missing two days prior. how is it that the police and the media are already well established on scene? Second, Juno took the group into a cave that was not the one listed in her records. How were the police able to get started at all? Third, if Sarah did exit via the mine (which she didn't in the first film), shouldn't the police have seen Sarah's footprints in the dirty, dusty mine?
Only 15 minutes into the film and already these many problems. Not good...
1) It's a pretty important emergency - Juno filed the expedition Flight Records into the agency that handles that information. If they don't report back later (I guess some hours after the trip's start), they alert the cops and go looking for them. If they don't find them quickly, they could die of thirst in three days if without water or in a week with water. And there's the possible cave-ins and so on. As for the media, it's a pretty good story, especially for a slow news day. "Five girls reported missing during caving expedition."
2) Juno filed the Flight Records for Boreham Caverns, yes. That's actually where the cops were searching first, and why they couldn't find the cavers. Then Sarah was discovered not too far away and the cops went to find her. She had gained amnesia so she couldn't tell them where the group actually went so a tracking dog was sent but led them to a lake instead (continue in 3)
3) and Sarah, much later in the film, reveals that she was "washed out by the water" and made her escape in that way. She went into a water passage which exited out into the lake where she ran on foot until she got to the roads. She was never in the mine - the mine was simply another entrance into the cave systems with an elevator that the cavers took advantage of.
I hope that made sense...and these are answered by paying attention to the movie. :)
You sir deserve a gold medal! Finally someone who sticks up for this movie although it does indeed have a few flaws. I find so many people feel the need to pick this movie apart simply because it's a sequel to a classic
Excellent answers. I'd just like to add to #1 that Juno is described by the news reporter as "Senator Kaplan's niece", which adds to the media interest in the missing girls.
And to add to #1 - it's six girls missing. When Sarah was found and they told Vaines over the phone the media was already reporting the story and Vaines told the phone not to tell anyone she was found.
Actually, it was Rebecca who filed the flight plan. She is angry with Juno because she filed the flight plan for the wrong caves. They didn't know until they were in there that it wasn't Boreham Caves.
I would still say the movie has one big plot hole. They try to match the blood to that of her friends on her clothes, to implicate her in their deaths. But in the first movie she falls into a huge vat of blood as shes fighting the female crawler. She was drenched in all kinds of blood of all types. Even if she was washed away later, it would probably be very hard to distinguish her friends blood even in an analysis.
Another note would also be in the first movie she maybe gets 2 of the other girl's blood actually on her, it wouldnt match with the 5 of them. And what she claws at wasn't another one of them but one of the crawlers.