Hideously over-rated B movie

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2002)

This film is, basically, a success story which owes it's popularity to marketing and special effects. The film itself suffers from dialogue which belongs in the 1940's although the actors involved do their best to make it realistic enough to be watchable. Only an American produced movie about the Titanic could have an American hero and a Brit villain (get off the Brit villain line, America, it's way past old). In short, the film is certainly watchable, if only for the effects, but the story behind this movie is parallel to the topic itself - opening with a blaze of glory, but you know it's gonna sink.