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Poseidon

Posted to Action on July 15th, 2006 by Chad Everett

This remake of the 1972 classic The Poseidon Adventure is better than most remakes. It’s certainly better than the 2005 made-for-television version that had terrorists wanting to sink the ship, instead of the rogue wave capsizing the luxury ocean liner.

Don’t get me wrong – the original is still better by a longshot. But this one at least does it justice. Where the classic had a good tale to tell, this one perhaps falls a bit short. But where it at least made up for that shortcoming, it definitely had some action all the way through, and one thing that impressed me was that people died. Who would have thought?


In this day and age, a major Hollywood action film where significant characters actually died on their trek? That just doesn’t happen all that often, it seems.

Oh, sure, there are the sacrifices made by the noble few where they give their last breath to save the rest of the survivors, and there were those moments too, but this film actually had places where someone almost didn’t make it, and you fully expected them to dive in, save them, and pull them out to be rescued – only they really didn’t make it. I mean someone – a major character – died. I was impressed.

That said, it was an action flick. There were moments that just couldn’t have happened. The major air bubble that kept the ship afloat burst with quite a while to go, yet the ship didn’t sink? Trapped in an air shaft with water rising all around, somehow they managed to not only get the grate undone, but everyone got out? I can live with it. It wasn’t that bad. But it wasn’t that great, either.

Rated PG-13 for intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril.

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