A Titanic disaster of a film...

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2000)

Judging by the grammar of the comments by the people who like this film on this board, all I can say is that these "film critics" must be 13-year-old females. It's a sad commentary on our society that most people who watched this film need a simplistic dialogue to understand a film. The dialogue left nothing to the imagination as it was trying so hard to stereotype everyone in this film. Here's a clue; rich people are not all bad and poor people are not all beer-swilling drunkards. The other stereotype you had was Jack the typical poor, starving artist. Then you had Billy Zane the villain, who was I assume was supposed to act and look like Snidely Whiplash (dark hair, dark clothing) from a Dudley Doright cartoon. I'm surprised they didn't put a moustache on him. And let's not forget Rose's rich up-tight mother (the rich are all uptight and snobbish you know), who is automatically supposed to allow a gambling, low life, starving artist delve right into the family fortune.
The effects were in fact good, but If you need your movie dialogue spoon fed to you, then this is the movie for you.