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Date: 2008-02-02 09:58:51 User: Unnecessary re-make of the 1972 (sort of) classic features some of the best work ever incorporating digital effects and live action but has little else to commend it. The opening shot is remarkable but it's all pretty much downhill from there. This version of the story of a small (and painfully artificially diverse) band trying to survive the capsize of an ocean liner makes for yet another sad comparison of seventies versus contemporary film-making. Today (once again) technological virtuosity has to stand in for the most basic story-telling not to mention an almost complete disregard for the basic rules of nature. The actors look abandoned and lost in the face of the effects. Dreyfus seems vaguely embarrassed and Josh Lucas offers a characterization that belongs more in a James Bond film. The original was full of clichés and cardboard characters too but the largely old-school cast (Stella Stevens, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters et al) knew how to carry it off. The new ensemble hasn't a clue. Director Wolfgang Petersen's career has been wildly erratic. Perhaps it was hoped that sending him back to sea would return him to the glories of "Das Boot". Instead what we get is better than "Enemy Mine" but not much.   You have to register to leave a comment...   Back to the Poseidon movie download page