source: Poseidon

I went to see Poseidon hoping that this was going to be, if not a great, at least a good movie. Sorry to say it is neither. This movie is just plain bad. The only thing worthy about this flick is the special affects. The characters are nothing more than a crew of puppets moved about a sinking ship with absolutely NO personality. The characters are so underdeveloped it really gives the audience (ME) no valid reason to care if these people come out alive! The acting is bad and suffers extremely from just a plain bad script. It seems that certain characters (Richard Dreyfuss) are implanted in this story just as fill-ins and others (Kurt Russell and Emmy Rossum) lack chemistry all together. If you really want to see this go to a Matinée or wait for the rental. If you haven't seen the original "The Poseidon Adventure" please do! This sad remake pales in comparison.

basically, this short film by Wolfgang Petersen has simple storyline. I wouldn't's say it is that bad just like most other audiences' point of views, but the story is hollow and not interesting at all. The director Wolfgang Petersen should make more effects on these main characters like Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and so on. The most impressive is its visual effects and the opening scene when Josh Lucas appears at the edge of the upper side of the ship. The camera movement of the first scene is creative and interesting. The ship sinking scene and water splash scene are quite impressive and realistic. However, that's all about it. Nothing else special. By and large, even though the director has a lot of damn money in "eye ball dropping" visual effects, this still can not save the hollow story and boring characters. Poor Poseidon.

I think I remember seeing the trailer for this movie when it first came out, but just never got the chance to watch it. Found it on Netflix at 1am and thought "why not". The movie I thought was pretty decent. I never been on a cruise ship before and know no idea about boats so I feel like i am pretty clueless and that's probably why I think the movie is decent. The only thing that makes me mad is Elena's death and the fact it was never brought up that Valentin was the reason she was there. I felt Elena should have been one of the survivors because they sacrificed Valentin. Also, I just realized the cast wasn't very diverse. Only had Valentin, Elena and the Captain. Poor Elena! Wrong place at the wrong time.

Given the following the original film has, not to mention the daring originality of the premise and Ronald Neame's final result, it seems to me Wolfgang Petersen should have put a little more effort into this remake. We all know he can make great and effective films - Das Boot, The Perfect Storm - but this one came off as if he relied on the special effects to carry this film. True, we can't expect each film to be an Oscar contender. However, is is too much to ask for a good script, more-than-scant character development, and a solid story? And I'm almost embarrassed for Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss, who are such competent actors! Come on, Wolfgang, you are capable of better than this!!!

Simply horrible! I don't even know where to start. The story was weak, a very basic "problem after a problem adventure movie". I did not get any feel for the characters in the movie and all the dialogs were out of place and clichéd. The effects were OK but I have to wonder what's with the explosions, why does every movie have to have thousands of things exploding and a wall of fire closing down from behind. This movie is another good example that you cant make a movie based on effects, you kinda need a story as well. I cant think of anything good about this movie and so cant recommend this movie to anyone.

I saw this movie on opening weekend, I guess hoping for some nostalgia back to a time when Hollywood seemed to have more "soul" or perhaps just to take a little trip down "Memory Lane" however I was quickly disappointed. Even so, I fathfully remained in my seat, ever hoping that something would happen. It's got to get better! That the the plot would improve, that the characters would develop a little...something. I mean, who are these people, anyway? We're never really told even who the hero is, or what he was doing on the ship. And even as they meet their untimely deaths, one by one, I couldn't muster up even a slight emotion. The movie failed to make me care about it's characters. The only thing I can say in its defense is that the original was a hard act to follow, as they say in show biz, and young viewers will likely enjoy it more, who have never seen the original and have nothing to compare it to. This film is surely destined to be quickly forgotten.

First of all, the movie did not come close to Suspense you find in the original. It's like BAM!, you're hit. With no time to think, the movie is over and you wonder where the hour and a half went.Somehow,even the line-up of Richard Dreyfuss and Kurt Russell did not improve anything here.The film lacked confrontation,as with Hackman and Borgnine, in original. We do not see two main leaders fighting for the "top". In the original, you had some tender,beautiful moments that this film lacked. Whereas Albertson,Buttons,and Borgnine gave their heart to make you cry,this film lacked time for grief, or sentimentality.In closing,I thought this movie could have done much better.

Another Wifey "disaster movie" pick. This one I was really loathe to see....and with good reason. The movie is about a bunch of people trapped on a cruise boat that gets hit by a rogue wave and overturns. Most die, but a group of people forge a desperate escape mission. Basically we follow them for an hour, generally narrowly escaping one flood to another, losing a few characters we've formed no attachment to along the way. Just awful. Besides the terrible script, we're left saddened by the fact Kurt Russell is the 2nd billed actor and that Fergie from "Black Eye Peas" makes a cameo. One of the worst films of 2006, and that's saying something considering what else was in the running.

This isn't a masterpiece.It isn't even that great a movie.What it is though is a reasonably entertaining 90+ minutes that has good effects and very cheesy dialogue. Sometimes it is too easy to try and analyze every movie that you see but in the case of films like this you just have to take them for what they are.It is entertaining,it is clichéd and yes,it is as corny as hell.But at the end of the day so what?It is most probably a movie that you would only watch once and it does show a lack of imagination by way of being a remake.Does it add anything to the original?Apart from the improved special effects no,not really.But I am not going to slate this movie simply because I happened to quite enjoy it.It most definitely won't make the IMDb 250 but it is better than some of the titles in there,at least in my opinion. Watch it,rate it and forget about it.You may just think that it is a pile of tosh but at least it entertains for a while.