Review: Poseidon
Wolfgang Petersen has proven himself a high quality box office director over the years, with movies ranging from Troy to In the Line of Fire and Outbreak. Names that make you say, yeah, that was a damn good movie. Usually, character are involved too, and therefore he hires the best actors he can get.
Unfortunately, all that isn’t really apparent in this movie. Don’t even start comparing this to Titanic, which was basically an elaborate love story. No, this movie is pure and simple a mediocre disaster movie. The one you’ve seen many times before, this decade already.
He probably did it for the money, or he just loves playing with water (Das Boot, Das Boot tv-series, The Perfect Storm). So, if brainless action movies with a unavoidable death threat following around isn’t your thing, better get that life support vest and jump for escape, i.e. skip this one. Because elaborate old school action and stunt scenes and supporting cgi effect can’t save this superficial script (with Emmy Rossum’s appearance as a small consolation prize).5-.