![]() ![]() This might be fine if we aren't intended to like any of While the updated effects bring a lot to the story, there's also a lot less dimension to theĬast of characters, making it harder for the audience to care what happens to any of them unless they'reĪlready a fan of the actor portraying the character. The Day After Tomorrow, it can make for solid entertainment. Presentation like in such films as Twister, Dante's Peak, Independence Day, or even And when its packaged in the action movie Considering the fact that there is nothing exciting orĮntertaining about a true disaster if it's happening to you in real life, there's something intriguingĪbout watching people going through suspenseful and strenuous peril. The more appropriately titled remake Poseidon revisits the concept of the original while introducingĪll new characters, an updated time and ship, and new perilous entrapments for the passengers to endure whileĭisaster movies are strangely entertaining. Now with filmmaking effects at their best, 2006 seemed like a prime time to give the story a second go-around. The Poseidon Adventure, the action drama was intense, intriguing, disturbing but most of all, memorable. Group of survivors that fight their way out made a splash at the box office. In 1972, a little disaster film about an ocean liner capsizing from a monstrous title wave and a small As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn’t even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other. Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets off through the disorienting maze of twisted steel in the upside-down wreckage. ![]() Along the way they are joined by a single mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her wise-beyond-his-years son (Jimmy Bennett), an anxious stowaway (Mia Maestro) and a despondent fellow passenger (Richard Dreyfuss) who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn’t want to die. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others as Dylan is followed by a desperate father (Kurt Russell) searching for his daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her fiancé (Mike Vogel), a young couple who hours before couldn’t summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler John Dylan (Josh Lucas) ignores captain’s orders (Andre Braugher) to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main). ![]()
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