Rating of 8

Rating: 8/10 (23 June 1999)

So there's a love story and the ship sinks. We know that. What James Cameron has given us is visuality, a chance to feel sorry for those doomed, and an average, every day affair. So the affair wasn't as brilliant as I expected it to be. I wish there was some more to it, some more twist. But the visuals- no one can say that was done wrong. Cameron did an excellent job of making this saddening story come to life. The ship sunk. That's how we read it. What he gave us was this: The huge, claimed as "unsinkable" ship was on it's way plummeting down towards the sea, where death to over a thousand passengers and crew members awaited them. The ship took a plunge down into the sea. The passengers who had already dived into the sea, were either looking with astonishment, or fighting for their lives in horror.
All in all, though, this was superbly done, and deserved all of the hype it got. -Sparkle :)