Don't believe the hype

Rating: 4/10 (25 November 2002)

It's really nothing special. The first half of the film is incredibly dull and when the ship finally sinks, that really doesn't do anything for me either. It's a great performance by Leonardo and it's a shame he didn't get a nomination because that's the one this film truly deserved. Sure, the special effects were impressive but so were the effects in Predator.
AND, James Cameron once wrote a letter to the L.A. Times TELLING them to fire their film critic because he didn't like TItanic -- that's reason enough to hate him and this movie.