Poseidon

Poseidon (2006)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (197 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (321,665 ratings)

Set adrift in the vast waters of the North Atlantic for a luxury New Year's Eve party staged in the ship's magnificent ballroom, the massive ocean-liner Poseidon receives an unexpected jolt when a rogue, 100-foot wave rolls it completely upside down, forcing the surviving passengers to fight their… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 39 min.
Directed By
Wolfgang Petersen
Written By
Mark Protosevich
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
May 12, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Aug 22, 2006
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

    Poseidon betrays a studio mindset that can only hasten the current erosion of movie attendance -- skimping on human content while betting heedlessly on boom boom boom and gurgle gurgle gurgle.

  • David Edelstein, New York Magazine

    As a humanist, I applaud the respect for life, but I miss the campy fun. The movie is, in all senses, a big downer.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    ... a waterlogged, unnecessary re-imagining of the cheesy blockbuster from the Seventies heyday of disaster films.

  • David Denby, New Yorker

    Throughout the movie, Petersen has a dynamic feel for the rush and heave of the deluge, the pent-up energy, the sheer heft and momentum.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    There's never any doubt that some of these uninteresting people will make the passage through hell to the hull, it's only a question of which ones. And whether we'll still be there to see whom.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    Classic remake that comes out pretty decent. I liked the original more but this was not a bad rent.

  • Manu G


    Mayday Saw it again! Good Movie. Very fun and thrilling movie meant to be watch and enjoyed. Very beautiful woman in this film too. It is New Year's Eve, and over 2,000 passengers & crew are ringing in the New Year aboard the huge cruise ship 'Poseidon' on the… More

  • Jeff "


    Remake of The superb disaster film The Poseidon Adventure is a horrible mess of a film. I really think that Wolfgang Peterson has made the worst film of his career with this film, and as far as an action film is concerned, there's absolutely nothing great about it. All the… More

  • Alexander D


    A terrible remake of one of the greatest disaster films ever to be made. Not worth watching, unless you love seeing an awful vocal performance by Fergie (as usual) and the intended-to-be-ironically-cast Richard Dreyfuss (who is much older and does a dumb performance in comparison to… More

  • Dean !


    A cool popcorn version update of the original.

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