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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Wolfgang Petersen
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Actors:
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Kelly McNair,
Josh Lucas,
Kurt Russell,
Jacinda Barrett,
Richard Dreyfuss,
Emmy Rossum,
Mía Maestro,
Mike Vogel,
Kevin Dillon,
Freddy Rodríguez,
Jimmy Bennett,
Stacy Ferguson,
Andre Braugher,
Kirk B.R. Woller,
Gabriel Jarret
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Duration:
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98 min.
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Rating:
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(5.6/10)85.5
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Plot Summary:
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In this remake of the 1972 adversity 'The Poseidon Adventure' (1972) , a luxury gobs liner capsizes from a colossal tidal wave, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves as they find a way in.
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Terrible
I found this awful....i kept thinking about the fantastic original film, i couldn't help it because the storyline was pretty much copied. The actors were very unconvincing and i didn't care what happened to them (unlike Shelly Winters in the original), the script was very basic throughout with one liners like 'there must be another way out' or 'quick the waters rising' all said without much conviction, i'm afraid i didn't feel for any of them at all. Very very poor re-make IMO, i wouldn't recommend it unless perhaps you hadn't seen the original.
Poseidon
Claudia PuigPoseidon is a sodden saga, with a script that is awash in clich??s. It nearly drowns under the weight of its own soggy tedium.
The sole reason to see it, if you must, is for the special effects and stunts. And even those eventually grow numbing with the constant barrage of roiling flood water, fiery explosions, hurtling bodies and gruesome deaths.
What a contrast with a true disaster epic like United 93 where the hideous outcome was understated and, therefore that much more poignant and devastating.
Of course this is the re-make of the 1972 original, with the notable addition of state-of the-art computer generated imagery. Even without the technological boost, The Poseidon Adventure had more suspense and tension, perhaps because we knew...
Poseidon
Carina ChocanoLet's just say that Wolfgang Petersen's remake of Irwin Allen's 1972 disaster classic The Poseidon Adventure rings more bells than Quasimodo at noon, and all you hear is a knell. The movie is set on a luxury liner sailing for New York from parts unmentioned, but it doesn't amount to much more than a prison escape movie on high seas.
Supposedly, the film's back story was cut to a nub because it wasn't playing. Or maybe Petersen and writer Mark Protosevich didn't play with it enough before sailing, and it died of neglect. More than characters, dialogue and lighting, here Petersen is interested exclusively in suspense of the will-he-or-won't-he-be-crushed-by-that-falling-flaming-elevator variety. It's Das Perfect Boot ??? with the characters compressed to ...
Poseidon
Brian LowryThe stripped-down title of the disaster epic formerly known as The Poseidon Hazard accurately reflects the large screen itself -- an early-summer agency that's built for speed, with scant time to develop characters preceding the time when the world turns upside-down. Thanks to its simple construction, Wolfgang Petersen's large-scale liner moves reasonably OK, though anyone with the faintest recollection of its 1972 predecessor thinks fitting theorize where most of the plot went, and the dialogue is so stilted it can honestly be said the less the elevate surpass. Noted that, Warner Bros. should enjoy a few animated mornings after, though prospects of an extended theatrical voyage appear unthinkable.
Petersen came to protuberance directing another plethora-fa...
Poseidon
A faction of people turn to escape an overturned voyage liner in this remake of the ideal act of God talkie. Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss star
Irwin Allen's 1972's film The Poseidon Adventure is something of a masterpiece of hokey popular cinema. The tale of a cruise liner flipped over by a vast comber and the organization of survivors who adjudge to perceive their puzzle, it was arguably the first-class of the 1970s cycle of disaster movies, thanks to Ronald Neame's solid direction, some powerful special effects and a difficult twist headed up by Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine.
It's a veil that didn't really need remaking, but considering the sparsity of ideas in Hollywood during the noughties, here it is: a remake, directed by Wol...
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