Good... But not great.

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2000)

This is a good movie -- there's no doubt about that. However, it is not all it's cracked up to be. I saw it about a week after it opened in Sweden.

There are some magnificent performances, for instance the oft forgotten Billy Zane, playing the jealous would-be husband of Rose, 'Cal' Hockley. I must confess that I have something against Leonardo DiCaprio, but there are a few performances in which he shines! These are: "Luke" in the series Growing Pains, "Arnie" in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and "Jack" in Titanic. Kate Winslet, however, delivers a very stereotypical "rich-girl-getting-a-taste-of-the-wild-life" performance, which I soon put out of my mind. The best female performances are instead Kathy Bates as "'Unsinkable' Molly Brown and Frances Fisher as "Ruth DeWitt Butaker".

A final note: The saddest moment of the movie is not the one people usually thinks about, but rather the fate of "Tommy Ryan" (Jason Barry)... watch it again, and see what I mean. I don't usually cry at movies, but during that scene, I was close to tears.