Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

So much average

A Masterpiece!

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Watchable movie with some great effects especially the wave hitting the cruiser. Old hats like Dreyfuss and Russell add to the luster.

The greatest favour Wolfgang Petersen could do for himself would be to have his name expunged from this dorky film. It is truly a flop. You'd expect special effects to exceed in 2006, but even that aspect of the movie stinks. Hard to believe that the director Wolfgang Petersen is the same fellow who was responsible for the magnificent Das Boot. ALL the actors were bloody terrible; not one of them convinced me s/he was a real person --- all were cardboard cutouts. One of THE worst movies of the first decade of the 21st century. FAIL FAIL FAIL

Poseidon (2006): Dir: Wolfgang Peterson / Cast: Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett: Yet another Titanic episode where a ship sinks and nearly everyone dies. We know that most of them do survive, and they survive right in time as the ship finally sinks. One heroic figure survives after many life threatening rescue missions. At least one person dies while saving or sacrificing him / herself. And there will be an annoying kid who hides and nearly causes others to drown in their search. This film should sink down a toilet since it was about as fun as diarrhea. Director Wolfgang Peterson delivers on production but only seldom does he deliver a film of artistic context. He previously made such junk as Air Force One and The Perfect Storm. The special effects pass but hardly able to be as interesting as the conversations between restless viewers sitting around me. The cast includes Josh Lucas who will act as hero. Kurt Russell who will pay the price for risking his ass. Richard Dreyfuss who hopefully reflects upon a much better lost at sea film he was in called Jaws. Emmy Rossum plays a potential love interest and nothing more. This is the standard case of potential actors being lined up to take second billing to special effects. They are all briefly introduced and thrust into standard disaster clichés that sink faster than the boat itself. Score: 3 / 10

As far as entertainment goes this is pretty much perfect. It's exciting, thrilling, intense & generally fairly well-acted. The Poseidon (like the original) has a no nonsense approach to film-making. We aren't giving a long boring introduction before the disaster occurs so whatever you may be feeling whilst the film is rolling it won't be boredom. However....The only big difference (and slight problem) with this remake is that its weaker in terms of character development and characterisation. The original seemed to manage to develop a few of the characters enough for us to care about them, but at the same time without drawing this element out for too long. In this remake, character development is overlooked meaning that you never care as much for these characters than you did for the characters in the original. In the original, the characters also felt more believable - quarrelling & general indecisiveness are much more believable character traits when you look at their predicament. However, in this remake Lucas just decides everything without anyone questioning him - how much better would it have been if there had been a power struggle between Lucas and Russell like there was between Borgnine and Hackman in the original? Other problems in this remake is that you quite simply don't care about the characters as much; I think the main reason for this is that the writers don't seem to care about the characters either. In the original film when someone died there was something made of it and again the characters were written in a way that made you care. In this film when a character dies, the writers just swiftly move on without a second's thought - the worse example of this was when Kurt Russell's character dies and no-one even bothers to go and look for him and nothing is really mentioned about his disappearance (they assume he's dead, but don't know it). How awful is that? You always got the feeling that they were a real team in the original and you could never imagine anyone leaving anyone else behind. It's a shame that the characterisation was so poor because other than that there's very little wrong with this film.On my real world scale this probably only deserves a 6, but I've given it a 7 because despite some of its flaws it is a very exciting and intense piece of cinema that will guarantee not to bore you. I believe with slightly better writing and characterisation that this could have been every bit as good as the original. However, considering it's a remake of a classic it really isn't that bad.