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Poseidon (Widescreen Edition)
Poseidon
Widescreen Edition
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas, Jacinda Barrett
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
PG-13     2006     1hr 38min

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. As the unstable vessel rapidly floods with ...  more »
     
     

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Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas, Jacinda Barrett
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Creators: Akiva Goldsman, Barbara Huber, Ben Waisbren, Chris Briggs, Duncan Henderson, Mark Protosevich, Paul Gallico
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Sub-Genres: Kurt Russell, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Closed-captioned,Dubbed,Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 08/22/2006
Original Release Date: 05/12/2006
Theatrical Release Date: 05/12/2006
Release Year: 2006
Run Time: 1hr 38min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 14
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Member Movie Reviews

Jason C. (JJC) from NEWARK, NJ
Reviewed on 7/7/2010...
Remakes, yet again.

Out of nowhere, Warner Brothers decided to tackle the early seventies disaster genre. With "The Towering Inferno," "Earthquake" and like four "Airport" flicks to choose from, the WB decided to grab a good director (Wolfgang Petersen) and an ensemble of character actors and dish out an updated version of "The Poseidon Adventure," now shortend to simply "Poseidon."

This time round, Gene Hackman's character of the original is split into two characters, neither of which is a faith-questioned priest. Here we have the always awesome Kurt Russell tackling the role of Robert Ramsey, an aging ex-firemen who was also the ex-mayor of New York City, and Josh Lucas playing Dylan Johns, a suave card-shark, who makes a living hustling. So, the basic plot is simple: a gigantic tidal wave hits an oceanliner, which overturns. Thousands of deaths and only a handful survive...and it is their story we witness, trying to escape with their lives before the boat eventually sinks.

Now let me tell you why, this remake works.

In due respect to the original, which is a classic, it is dated and a tad bit hokey (however Hackman's performance still stands out in that film, and is not matched here). Written by Mark Protosevich, who hasn't had a script produced since his first entry "The Cell," does a very good job telling this story in what is practically real time. The performances are handled well, especially from the two leads (Russell and Lucas), however there is some cheese dialogue that bleeds through, I mean after all, it is a Hollywood popcorn flick. In addition to Russell and Lucas, the survival hungry team consists of: a single mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her young son (Jimmy Bennett), Ramsey's daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her disapproved of boyfriend (Mike Vogel), a suicidal gay man (Richard Dreyfuss), and a beautiful stowaway (Mía Maestro). The sets are great, and the film is tight. The claustrophobic feel and surprisingly shocking death scenes add to cool factor of the film.

I can't say if this is better than its predecessor or not (they are equal in my opinion), but it's an easy and tight 98 minutes, and escapist entertainment that works.
Gina W. (Georgina) from ASHLAND, OH
Reviewed on 10/10/2008...
I havent seen the 70's version of this movie but I did find this to be a great action movie with a star-studdded cast. Granted it has a weak plotline but the visual effect are amazing and kept us on the edge of our seat. Ohh and there are enough dead bodies in this movie to fill a small cemetary.
1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Aimee M. (AimeeM)
Reviewed on 3/26/2008...
A knock off of the 1970s classic, this version... doesn't impress or shock you in any way.

The fact that we already know the story, and that a bunch of people will die, makes the movie uneventful. The graphics are pathetic... and probably would be considered pathetic by the 70s standard as well.

This version does have some benefits. Like the original, it has a star-studded cast. Many of the actors you'll say.. "OH! I know that guy he played in..." But of course, then they die and you go, "Boy that was a cameo if ever I saw one"

In short. This is a "B" movie. If you like B movies, you'll like this fine. If all else fails... post it on here! :)
1 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Danielle T. (sugarkane) from FITCHBURG, WI
Reviewed on 12/28/2007...
I did not really expect to like this movie, but surprisingly I really got into it. It has great special effects, good enough to overcome a weak plot and minimal character development. If you are in the mood for a good adventure movie (and I guess I was) Poseidon is a fine choice.
2 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Movie Reviews

A disaster flick that treats its audience like an idiot
Alexander M. Walker | Chicago, IL USA | 05/01/2010
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Few films achieve a level of awful that reaches a point where it actually offends. Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay tend to come pretty close, but their films usually round out to just being below average. Usually, Wolfgang Petersen sits comfortable above these two on the quality scale, as his films The Perfect Storm, Air Force One, and Outbreak never sink to a level of craptacular disaster flick or racist robot populated summer blockbusters. Then he made Poseidon. It doesn't have either of those two detractors I just mentioned, but it has an unforgivably bad story, little to no suspense, and a wasted cast. It wants to be an Emmerich-style disaster piece with Michael Bay-sized visuals, but it has no momentum whatsoever. A huge cruiseliner gets overturned by a rogue wave and then the movie, like the ship, just proceeds to sink deeper and deeper into oblivion with the crew (for the metaphor, this would be the audience) powerless to escape.

Any disaster flick will fail if the audience isn't at least slightly invested in the people on the screen. The writer and director are charged with making them as human and relatable as possible so if we don't see ourselves in the characters, we at least see people we know. That caveat makes Poseidon all the more embarrassing, because despite being set in the present, you'll have an easier time relating to the characters in Titanic. Off the bat it should be known that it's really not the cast's fault. Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum, Kurt Russell, and Richard Dreyfuss have proven they can act, I think that's something most won't bother arguing. So why do they all come across as loathsome morons who just can't die fast enough? Because there's nothing in the film driving it forward once the wave hits. Unfortunately the wave hits within the first ten minutes of the film, it wastes no time getting to the excitement, but it never arrives at that destination. It rolls about in action film purgatory with the cast running, climbing, and scraping about from one section of the capsized ship to the next trying to get to the surface.

Along the way, we see personal relationships unfold in tremendously shallow ways that we just can't help but not care about. Kurt Russell is attempting to deal with his daughter's coming of age as she and her brainless beau work through their relationship-defining-talk. Pretty boy Josh Lucas plays the charismatic young man who leads the survivors towards safety using his intimate knowledge of the ship's throughways. Dreyfuss plays the token old guy, and finally, a mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her whiny child tag along, because hey, they don't want to die. There is character development, but it's useless and does absolutely nothing to help the audience care. At all. We watch the lemmings parade about the ship with the no-name actors (the Star Trek red-shirt equivalents) getting picked off one by one in uninspired death scenes. Characters blurt out expositional passages to explain why they can't go a certain way; which wouldn't be so bad if it didn't also come from characters who should know nothing about the situation.

What the film lacks in any real substance or value, it makes up for (only barely) with an interesting set concept (which is covered in detail in an extra feature). Setting the film on an overturned cruiseliner means the luxurious set is turned on its head making the panicked voyage to the surface at least somewhat interesting. However, even the visuals of the film pale in comparison to the villain which rears its ugly roguish head in the opening ten minutes and then leaves the film to wither and die. That the Poseidon is capsized by a rogue wave is the most interesting thing the film has going for it, which says a lot considering it's a CGI-fest on Blu-ray. You'd expect to be blown away by the audio and visuals, but the writing is just so appalling that everything good is overshadowed.

Blu-ray Bonus Features

The extras on the film's production easily trump the film in terms of generating viewer interest in what's on the screen. Showing the soundstage and the sets as they shot the film is actually quite neat. They even saw fit to include the History Channel's piece on rogue waves. Then, though, there's the utterly useless film intern video diary. It's really hard to care about that last piece for the 12 minutes it insists on carrying on for. In the long run, hearing the actors and directors talk about this film like it's anything other than a trainwreck actually provides a nice level of comedy."