A common love story with a misguiding title

Rating: 8/10 (28 June 1999)

The story of the love between two people from entirely different worlds. Why is this movie called "Titanic"? This is a love story, and the plot has just about nothing to do with the ship itself, Titanic is just the set. The plot is not that bad, but there's nothing special about it, the same story has been seen a million times. Some of the actor/actress performances are very good, and director James Cameron does an exceptional job. But good acting and direction do not make a great movie without a great script. Why this movie was such a grand hit, I can't tell. Maybe it's the effects, maybe the acting, maybe even the music, who knows. Titanic is a pretty good movie, and watching it is not a waste of time, but the fact remains, that the movie is a thirteen-a-dozen-type of love story.