Sad acting, Sad effects, and pitiful plot

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 1998)

Ok, so i was dragged to this movie and gave it a fair shot. It didn't even deserve that. I won't even go into the acting much or the sappy, melodramatic, horrible plot, but i will talk a lot about the much ballyhooed special effects. First, most of the blue screen mattes are poorly done, and halos aplenty show up in many scenes, most notably when Kate Winslet is hanging off the back of the ship. Second, the far-away overly matte shots of the ship sailing, in no way fit the colorization of the film, not to mention that the ship did not have any bow wave as it traveled through the ocean; they started half way down the ship. Granted, most movie's effects are far from anything real, but even low budget action movies look better than this. If you want effects, go to ILM, otherwise, don't waste your time and write them out of the script. And now the acting. Utter filth. The Pro/Epilouge's acting was sub-b-movie quality, along with the rest of the film. The only ok acting in the entire movie was accomplished by Billy Zane and Bill Paxton, who, are pretty much b-movie actors anyway, so their performance was their status quo.