Cardboard story and cardboard acting

Rating: 1/10 (6 August 1999)

Actually reading a lot of the previous reviews (lots of them) has restored my faith in humanity.
I half expected to read 'best film ever' which pops up far too often for average films that hollywood rams down people's throats.
This film was so poor. I'm generally a fan of Cameron and normally his writing is very good, but the sub plot to this film was appalling. Why did Rose, who was meant to be English played by an English actress have a bad American accent. Why did every Englishman/woman on the boat (which incredibly was an English ship you know, not American as the film tries to push) an evil nasty character.
The acting was probably the worst in film history and the love story was so silly and badly done. All the scenes on the boat looked like Hollywood stage sets.
It's very disturbing that a film like this can win Oscar recognition. It was bad enough that Braveheart won an Oscar, but that was much better than this.
Film making and hype at its worst from a normally reliable director.