good but not the best

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 1998)

Comments like "this is the best film I've ever seen" etc... are very often heard but I think that such opinions are very shallow as is this love story about Winslet and Di Caprio. People who say that this is the best movie they''ve ever seen can't have been seen lots of movies. "Titanic" has great special effects but the story itself is very predictible and the characters are very vague and undefined and they don't develop at all during the film. Characters don't live through the movie. The best film of the 1997 is of course "L.A. Confidential" and it is shame that it didn't get more Oscars. But that's life. Experience says that most oftenly the best movies of a year don't get so many Oscars.