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
Neil Welch
You wouldn't think that 3 hours of something as iconic as the Poseidon Adventure would be forgettable, but this is.The insertion of a wholly unnecessary (an massively unconvincing) terrorist plot subplot draws attention away from the main course - do our survivors escape? The fact that we don't care very much about the survivors (and particularly about the adultery-and-its-consequences subplot which impinges on a good chunk of them doesn't help).The TV movie budget means that we are never looking at masses of production value on screen, but instead we are looking at very dim lighting to disguise the absence of production budget - OK, I know there wouldn't be much light, but this is ridiculous.And there is too much of it, given that it is plodding and fairly uninteresting a lot of the time.
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.
boettcher30259
I picked up this copy of The Poseidon Adventure as part of a four pack for five bucks. I was curious because of so many of the almost great actors that was listed that I've haven't seen in a while.First of all, I'm not going to compare this to the original 1972 version. Nor the recent remake. I think that any movie should be critiqued as a stand alone for its own merits. So, as far as the acting goes, I enjoyed it. Rutger Hauer, Adam Baldwin, C. Thomas Howell, Steve Guttenberg, Bryan Brown and even Peter Weller put on an enjoyable performance. I like the fact that it was set in a more modern times with a more modern ship, the Poseidon of 1972 was an older ship on her last legs with a host of mechanical problems, and even with the element of the terrorist. But where this one fell short was; 1. The blast would never have caused that ship to capsize. Their explanations in the film were very weak and untrue.2. All modern ships have water tight integrity. While the ship was underway the water tight integrity would have been set and even if that ship capsized it would have stilled floated for weeks to come.3. Little incidentals like the Naval Captain that wore Commander Insignias. Chief Petty Offices that looked like that still had to rub cream on their face and call the cat in to "shave".The blast though that capsized the ship was the biggest blunder. I was laughing at that. If the director has used the terrorist and those blast to cripple the ship and the steering and then use a handy tsunami to capsize the ship then the movie would have been more believe able and enjoyable.So to any one that wants to watch this movie, watch it for the actors; but not for the plot.
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