overrated

Rating: 4/10 (4 April 2003)

How on earth could this movie have won an Oscar for best film? The string ensemble continuing to play as the ship was sinking was straight out of Monty Python. There was no sense of terror as the ship began to flood. Instead you sat back and admired the clever way the director filmed the ship filling up with water - how it burst through ceilings and doors and whooshed its way along the corridors. Surely we were meant to feel for the poor panic-stricken passengers?- the director obviously didn't.
As for the romance between Leo and Kate - they have to be one of the most mismatched couples in movie history. It might have had a big budget but this has to be one of the poorest ever movies to win an Oscar - what was the Academy thinking of?