Poseidon

Could have been better with Wolf Gang Peterson involved. Hell, with his talent he deserved better than a unnecessary Poseidon Adventure remake. Better off watching the original. Also better off watching Wolfgang Petersen at sea movies that aren’t this remake. Like Das Boot and The Perfect Storm.

As you might expect, a blockbuster disaster movie usually lives or dies by the quality of its special effects. Poseidon, perhaps embracing this sensibility, storms right out of the gates with its money shot, a flyby tour of the doomed ship's exterior from all angles that could be generously described as half as impressive as it sounds. The CG looks like a student reel, amateurish and fake with some goofy footage of soon-to-be hero Josh Lucas jogging the upper decks awkwardly crammed in. It's a downhill slide from there as a thin plot yields to the power of impressive post-production effects to bail it out, and that particular cavalry never manages to arrive. A surprisingly star-studded cast struggles with one dimensional characters, banal "here's what I'm looking at" dialog and plot twists so by-the-book I was able to accurately predict each on-screen death. It's a bland, generic, cash-in of a remake that isn't even afforded the buoy of good eye candy. Don't bother.