Poseidon Reviews

Some cool VFX scenes, Fergie, Johnny Drama, the actor formerly known as Richard Dreyfuss, and a big ass wave.

This is a classic example of a notable filmmaker who is passed his prime and given too big of a budget.

After hearing so many bad things, I wasn't expexting much from this flick but Wolfgang Petersen is quite capable of making some spectacular blockbusters so I thought I should check it out anyway. To start with, I haven't seen the original version so I can't compare the two movies and, as I mentionned before, I had some rather low expectations since I only heard lukewarm reactions about it. Eventually, I didn't think it was that bad at all after all. Indeed, I thought it was actually a rather well made and quite entertaining disaster flick and there were some awesome action scenes. Of course, the story and the characters were nothing spellbinding but they were not supposed to be really amazing. Indeed, it was the usual combination of stereotypical characters but it is inherent to the genre and it didn't really bother me. To conclude, even though it has a rather poor reputation, I think it is actually worth a look, especially if you like the genre or if you are looking for some brainless entertainment.

I went to watch this into a movie theater 2006 and I remember thinking that ok, I like this movie. Well it's very different to watch movies from a huge screen in a dark theater than from my own little TV - lights on. AND I was eleven years old, so yes, I don't find this movie good at all anymore, after seeing it for the second time.