Cameron wields metaphor like a terminator in a gun store

Rating: Null/10 (11 January 1999)

Cameron wields metaphor like a terminator in a gun store, but the film is still enthralling. The love story is weak and the dialog cringeworthy at times, sure, but film is a visual medium and Titanic is a luscious visual feast -- a perverse but tantalising glimpse into the tragedy of 1912. His forte is well-paced seat-of-your-pants action, and it is this that he injects in to "A Night To Remember", which by comparison seems slower, quieter and shallower.
Cameron -- not noted for eloquent dialog -- avoided the trap of adding an archaic edge to the lines and instead went for modern phrasing in many places. This irritates some of us but probably makes the story more accessible to the younger audience.
Some of us can forgive Cameron's attempt at a love story (but only just), and see beyond it to his wider skill of producing an imaginative and intricate action-canvas. I like the film because I can see a lot of good (and hard) work in there.