A lean, enjoyable disaster story that happily spends more time focusing on character than spectacle, though visual effects are impressive.

Infusing its nightmarish scenario with bracing doses of satirical humor, Tunnel is smarter and more sophisticated than most Hollywood attempts at the genre.

There's not enough story here to warrant the film's more than two-hour running time; 90 taut minutes tracking a week in the ruined tunnel would have sufficed. Still, it's a vivid and relatable tale.

Fantastic survival drama-type film.