Fantastic and flawed at the same time

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2004)

It's pretty simple really to define Titanic as a movie experience, awesome direction, cinematography and effects, but it's handicapped by a poor script that has the tendency to put you to sleep. There's no wit, originally and it's not completely believable. It seems the script was low on the priority list when the film was being made, and it pays the price. A good script would've complimented the rest of the movie very nicely. I thought the old lady telling her story business was a waste of time and didn't help involvement, it should have been scrapped altogether.
If you haven't seen Titanic before, it's worth a look. The movie gets up and boogies in the final hour, although the first two is more in line with chick flicks like You've Got Mail etc. Titanic has been unjustly praised and unjustly bashed in some quarters, but overall it's a solid version of the events of 1912, no more, no less.