Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

TheLittleSongbird What a disappointment! I really like the 1972 film with Gene Hackman, not so much the bloated remake, but this is by far the worst of anything to do with The Poseidon Adventure. Granted, the production values are great on the whole, but everything else sinks faster than you can shout anchor.Pace is a huge problem with this. The Poseidon Adventure(2005) is incredibly dull, with over an hour of sluggish pacing and little else. It does try to liven things up towards the end, but in the process trying too hard and trying to do too much. The story is very hackneyed, at first it seems as though it never leaves the deck then later on it feels bloated, also it is completely devoid of suspense, poignancy and foreboding. I would blame some of the plot additions for this, especially the terrorist one, which was stupid and added nothing to the story.The Poseidon Adventure also feels very under-directed. Never in a TV series/movie have I seen a more soulless and clumsy directing job. And the dialogue is dreadful, often convoluted, very silly and unsure of which direction it wants to go. The acting doesn't fare that much better, Adam Baldwin and Steve Guttenberg are decent actors but because of the material being so poor not to mention their badly written and thoroughly unlikeable characters they and all the actors for that matter deserve much better than this.Overall, had potential but ended up being a shipwreck. 1/10 Bethany Cox

edwagreen This film totally lacks the fire of the 1972 original.Rutger Hauer, cast in the Gene Hackman role of the priest, is definitely miscast here. Based on his past performances, you would expect Hauer to be dressed up as a terrorist since a terrorist act has been committed on the boat. That is not the case here. In fact, Hauer lacks the emotional impact of Hackman who questioned his faith after witnessing so many horrors on the boat.The same may be said for Sylvia Syms, who has the Shelley Winters role of Belle Rosen. In this version, Manny Rosen, who was played by Jack Albertson so beautifully in the original, is already dead when the picture begins. Syms gives a totally lackluster performance. Even when she turns over her jewelry to be given to her grandson, there is so little emotion shown.To qualify for the modern scene, this time around a terrorist bomb goes off on the ship creating the havoc. You needed more than that here.

bessiesmith-1 I ordered the Blu-Ray release of this, thinking it was the original film, which I liked. I had not heard of a TV "remake" and now I know why. This is undoubtedly among the most embarrassing films I have ever seen. Some films are so bad that they have inherent redeeming value, but this one has absolutely nothing going for it. It is mind-boggling that good actors could read this unprofessional script and still sign on the dotted line!I won't go into details, for others have done so quite well here. Terrible reviews of a film that is even more terrible.I will henceforth read carefully before I order a DVD.

T Y "Let's give a big Poseidon welcome," ...to this feeble turd.My mouth was hanging open. This is like a crappy movie-making master-class. OK for starters, the project is immediately being yanked in two directions - It's a grandiose, money-devouring adventure, but they'd prefer not to spend more than $12.99 on any sequence. It's supposed to be an exciting, dynamic movie but the creators heads are stuck in static, made-for-TV mode. Every second of this smells like cost-cutting. They even split the original one-two punch of the ship rolling, followed quickly by the ballroom flooding into two moments hours apart not because the narrative is improved, but to pad things.In terms of style, it doesn't have a casual or natural idea in it's three hour running time. Whatever is happening on screen is overtly introduced, and hierarchically approved by a team that is most pleased with themselves when the resulting footage is inert and generic. i.e. If you're tired of limp duct-escape sequences, somehow this move found a way to make them staler AND duller. You know something is wrong from the get-go because you're looking at some of the ugliest Bo-Rics hairstyles you've ever seen. It's like the make-up team under financial pressure gave up the fight and just told everyone to do their own hair. And there's a team of haggard looking actors who haven't had work in ten years. (Gutenberg, Hauer, C. Thomas Howell). My apologies to Adam Baldwin who is better than this. Peter Weller is looking more like Richard Widmark than anyone expected. Gutenberg is morphing into 70s actor David Groh. 40 minutes into it, it still hasn't started. An hour is gone and wasted before the show even gets rolling. Newsflash - No one tuned in for the characters or the plot. They've got the wrong look for the visuals. The initial night-shot of the ship looks like it was designed for a cruise commercial not a movie about a ship. We don't need a nineteenth flyover shot of the overturned hull. (Half the CGI budget must've been spent on these) We could sure use some thrills though. At one point there's even a ridiculous 5 second cutaway to a crappy CGI satellite (a box with lights flashing), because someone sends a fricking e-mail. I mean, really...This made-for-TV movie has a box that says WIDESCREEN edition on it (um. OK.) which it's not. This is a head-scratching lie which can only be attributed to deliberately tricking viewers into renting this, thinking they're getting the big screen remake.Thrill-proof. I've never been happier to have a F-Fwd button.