Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett
When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. As the unstable vesse...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 22, 2006
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May 30, 2009"Oh my God... No!"
Once again, I've got to remind you all of my dislike about remakes. 'Poseidon' is a remake of a film conveniently called 'Poseidon Adventure' from '72. The original may have had some "adventure" in it but this film made by Wolfgang Petersen, who's work can be ...( read more) -
March 19, 2009How many times have we seen ships or rooms fill up with water? How many times have we had to watch people running around these rooms trying to escape. Why should I have to sit through another one that takes no chances and uses its characters as nothing more than plot devices?
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January 6, 2009A remake of a catastrophe film classic filmed by a director who regularly does films about ships doesn't sound like the most original idea ever but surely not like something that can go horribly wrong either. And that's exactly what the result is like: well done popcorn entertain...( read more)
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January 4, 2009A luxury cruise liner is sunk by a rogue wave. A group of passengers try to make their way off the sinking ship. Kurt is good at these disaster / action movies. It's not quite Titanic, as it's a bit over dramatic. Good effects.
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November 13, 2009When I first heard about Wolfgang Petersen was re-imagining Paul Gallico's The Poseidon Adventure, let me tell you at first I wasn't too pleased. I thought this was going to be another shallow and brainless Disaster film with amazing visuals and nothing much else to hold...( read more)
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November 9, 2009I don´t understand why the women are so helpless and the men need to be heroes.
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November 7, 2009Now I've seen all the editions of the Poseidon saga
This one has got the most boring cast but uses electricty and fire in wider range than the other versions -
November 6, 2009This movie is quite like Titanic, although without the big love story. So this movie pretty much starts off with all the excitements and monster-waves and survivals and deaths.
I haven't been this dedicated to a movie for a long time, it was brilliantly made and I just couldn't ...( read more) -
Critic Reviews
May 18, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
May 11, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Poseidon, which cost some $160 million to make, certainly qualifies as a big movie. But it's the kind of 'big' that you forget almost as soon as you've left the theater. full review
May 11, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Poseidon is a sodden saga, with a script that is awash in clichés. It nearly drowns under the weight of its own soggy tedium. full review
May 11, 2006
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
By the end, you won't care who lives or dies, and you'll suspect the filmmakers didn't either. full review
May 11, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The chief virtue of Wolfgang Petersen's reasonably well-executed remake of The Poseidon Adventure is that it keeps the action moving.
May 11, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Relying on empty spectacle rather than drama, Poseidon sinks faster than a topsy-turvy cruise ship. full review
May 11, 2006
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
If The Poseidon Adventure was pure camp classic, Wolfgang Petersen's uninspired re-do succeeds at neither -- it's not camp and it's not classic. full review
May 11, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Petersen's heart isn't in it. He is too wise a director to think this is first-rate material, and too good a director to turn it into enjoyable trash. full review
May 10, 2006
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Its ever-present underlying racial politics [mirror] those of dunderheaded '80s B-horror movies. full review
April 27, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
You'll end up entertained if you forgive the cliches and let Petersen grab you with the visuals, from the avalanche of water in the ballroom to the eerie sight of a flooded crawl space where wires tak... full review
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January 20, 2009First Poseidon was the classic disaster movie. This doesn't do to bad in the remake stakes. Plenty of thrills. Better effects of course. Shame the original stellar cast of The Poseidon Adventure weren't in it.
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July 19, 2008i really like this movie very much and i am speechless ,too! i wanted to watch this movie again and always. nw iam this movie's also fan member! ok,then you are all able to see my profile and sent (post) comment to my profile, ok? i am here to wait! nw give me huge smile. bye bye.
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January 10, 2008Anyone know where the already inflated life raft came from at the end? It seemed odd for it to be sitting there waiting for them right where they escape.
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May 6, 2007wonderful graphics, great storyline..only that this monstrous wave seems to appear out of nowhere, rlly, and something should have explained it like *hmm hmm* in the original, a seaquake off of crete..the scene though when the wave crashes into the ship is incredible..and i love the violence
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March 4, 2007this kinda scares me about going on a cruise...lol it was really action filled and it's a movie that u don't want to stop watching! i can't believe fergie dies! i cryed so much!! this movie was really good overall!
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