The biggest disappointment in cinematic history!

Rating: 1/10 (13 December 2000)

They took a very real, heartbreaking tragedy and made it into a cheesy love story! Then they mixed in two actors who cannot act to save their lives, made them read a horribly written script, and finished off by adding three hours of unnecessary footage! DiCapprio and Winslet are painful to listen to - they have virtually no skill in line delivery and the writer wrote things that no one in real life says! They spent way too much money on special effects (and that's all it looked like, obvious computer graphics) instead of using some sort of skill and REALLY recreating the ship. If you take away the choppy computer graphics, the horrible script, the leading duo, that horrendous teeny-bopper love/sex story, and Celine Dion, you are left with an amazing group of scenes when the ship sinks, the incredible make-up work on the oceanic casualties, and the indisputably wonderful Kathy Bates which is the cast's only saving grace. It may be a cult classic for lonely love sick teens, but I would avoid this one like the plague if I were you. Instead, write a list of all the other things you could do in three hours and save yourself the nauseous feeling you get every time DiCapprio and Winslet try to act.