Half good, half bad

Rating: Null/10 (18 March 2000)

The way that this film depicts the Titanic sinking is excellent, the love affair between Jack (Leo Di Caprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) is complete garbage. The former uses great special effects to tell the story of one of the biggest disasters of the 20th century, whereas the latter is filled with trashy one-liners which the scriptwriters deem "romantic", but are in fact endless cliches which have been heard before in other love films. The lead characters are annoying. Leo is completely fake in his portrayal of a "poor" person. It completely ruins the character's personality, as you, the viewer, in fact know that he is getting half a million quid for doing this, and is about as poor as a multi-billionaire. Kate Winslet is infuriating as Rose, an upper class girl turned into a scruff by the "wayward" Jack, but is amusing to see how out of place her snobbish accent is at the slobbish 3rd class party. The actors who play her family are also EXTREMELY irritating, and you get the impression that they are all this disgustingly upper-class in real life.
The special effects on the other hand, are amazing (the flooding of the great hall and the boat being dragged down stand out as memorable) and you can't help wondering how much better the film would have been if the makers had scrapped the whole love story idea and shot the film in the third person perspective. For effects: 10 out of 10 For the plot: 1 out of 10