Well Done, yet over rated

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2000)

James Francis Cameron's Titanic is a well done film, but I think it gets more credit than it deserves. True, the film won eleven Academy awards (including 3 for Cameron and 2 for composer James Horner), but I think it shouldn't had been ranked so high- like with Ben-Hur status.
If you don't know the story of Titanic now, your probably one of the ones who didn't survive because the story is world-renoun. So are it's actors (Leonardo DiCaprio is not at his best, Kate Winslet is at least hot, and Billy Zane works as a villain) who work into Jim Cameron's script about romance on the high seas. Luckily, the film doesn't go as slow as you may think, but still, that's no excuse to have the Titanic sinking in the movie longer than it did in real life.
But seriously, this film does have many great qualitites. The story is well lay out, and the special effects are dazzling (it actually looks like the Titanic is sinking) which also won a Oscar. One of the great points in this film is the score by James Horner which is his best and one of the best ever, but that is over-shadowed by fancy fireworks and bad acting. Good direction though. B