Long, boring and totally unmoving

Rating: 2/10 (31 March 2000)

Special effects junkies may get something out of this film, but I found it long, very boring and totally unmoving. The characters in general were shallow and one-dimensional; none of the main characters were in the slightest bit likeable, and the film's potential was ruined by the extremely silly and totally fabricated central story of the "upstairs/downstairs" romance between Di Caprio and Winslett. This totally implausible bit of the plot succeeds in turning this tale of a terrible human tragedy into just another trite Hollywoodisation in which only beautiful people and thwarted love count for much. Such a shame - given the dreadful, tragic setting (which, let's face it, really did happen), it could have been a good film.......