Two thumbs down

Rating: 1/10 (14 April 1999)

The craze was out. Everyone was talking about it. Girls swamped the theaters to see it 7,8,9,10 times. "Best movie ever" they said to I finally rented it. I have to say that I found it sadly lacking. It was a historically inaccurate movie about a girl that cheats on her fiancee. I find it sickening that the American people find such great pleasure in a movie like this. There was no action at all in the first 2 or so hours of the film; Leonardo stood around and looked cute and Kate stood around and tried to look cuter. The "evil" character in this movie was completely one dimensional showing us no other qualities of himself except that of some ogre which makes you wonder why Kates character ever got engaged to him anyway. When her romance with Leonardo began she never before, during, or after suggested to the Ogre that they should "just be friends" she decided just to skip that and start steaming up some windows. And why did people see it so many times? Did they expect the ending to change after the eleventh viewing? Were they hoping to see the boat not sink? I think it could have been a wonderful movie if they had based it more on fact such as "Gettysburg" or "Braveheart". The true story of the Titanic is filled with action and sorrow and loss enough that they didn't need to ruin it with a revolting play of a Cheater, an Ogre, and a Pretty Boy that brought excitment to an otherwise boring and uneventful voyage.