Alleged period love story

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2009)

Alleged period love story in which the big budget and special effects ultimately win over the human characters. The recreation of the era and the enactment of Titanic's doomed fate are all carefully and meticulously crafted, which is the least that can be said about the corny romance between the two principals, which feels and looks like a cheap paperback written by an amateur. Cameron is primarily a Hollywood technocrat and his films have never had any great demands on intellectuality, as is the case here which on its own merits is still decent pop entertainment. That said, this has to be the most overrated movie of all time.