With better characters, the romance might actually merit the running time

Rating: 5/10 (8 September 2017)

Well, it's not "Avatar" levels of disappointment, but "Titanic" is far from Cameron's best work. Don't get me wrong, there's a great disaster epic here, but you've gotta work for it. The actual iceberg doesn't appear until 100 minutes in. A hundred. That's a lot of forced love story to slog through before real dread starts to build. And the less said about that song, the better.
This isn't a bad movie, and it's technically proficient when the effects take center stage. When it's actually about White Star Line's monumental hubris, and the destruction raining down (or washing in) the spectacle lives up to the director's name.
But the rest of it . . .
5/10