Sinking feelings

Rating: 6/10 (16 June 1999)

This unconvincing love-story wrapped around a human disaster made a fairly average Hollywood Blockbuster. The characters were 1 dimensional stereotypes and utterly unrealistic, perhaps best summarised by the moment in which Billy Zane crumbles beneath the weight of traditional Hollywood narrative conventions and pulls a gun on the young lovers. Did people really believe that? The action is average, the acting okay, the drama tedious, the special effects a dime a dozen these days, and the ending PREDICTABLE. Steven Spielberg would have done it so much better. Come on, face up to the HYPE!