Meaningless drivel

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2004)

What a dog! A wonderful exercise by Hollywood in wrapping a tedious love story around an historical event in order to sell tickets. The two stars spend the whole of the film in breathless mode trying to inject some life into this corpse whilst we are "treated" to an occasional reference back to the Titanic disaster in order to gain some credibility. No cliché is left unturned in this film, from long lingering shots of the lovers to the wailing drone of the title song endlessly inserted when we are supposed to feel the helplessness of their love. When I saw this film, people actually cheered when the ship went down - we would have cheered more if it went down in the first five minutes.
Meaningless fodder for the intellectually challenged.