The triumph of hype over experience

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 1999)

This film was billed as the most accurate recreation of any film yet produced. Millions of dollars were spent on recreation of the ship and the voyeuristic realism of the drowning and sinking of 1500 souls. It is a shame that the money spent on the script amounted to no more than 50 cents!! The characterisations are but unoriginal stereotypes given dull and uninspired words to mouth over the " amazing special effects ". The social realism was only that of an ignorant American. We are expected to swallow as believable that a 17 year old girl has the knowledge of an Art Historian and the wit to perceive that the works of Degas and Monet will be great some day. The love story between her and Jack Dawson is laughable in its pastiche of great " cross over " love affairs.For a film to pride and promote itself on realism it seems unbelievable that social realism is completely lacking. This film is more about the ego of Hollywood Directors and about the disturbing aspirations of nobodies for a place in history.
This film will in due course sink like the eponymous ship and I trust that it to will never resurface.