The movie is just what you'd expect: skimpy, almost laughable characterizations surrounded by claustrophobically suspenseful action sequences.

| Mar 15, 2018

It swims but it's one of those sloppy dog paddles your kid brother does more than an Olympic freestyle.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Petersen's expert direction ensures it remains gripping, keeping the tension ratcheted right up and commendably steering it all home within 100 minutes.

| Jun 24, 2006

Poseidon betrays a studio mindset that can only hasten the current erosion of movie attendance -- skimping on human content while betting heedlessly on boom boom boom and gurgle gurgle gurgle.

| Jun 22, 2006

It will be a minor treat to rent the DVD, and freeze-frame some of the more choice wooden expressions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2006

A gripping, pacy remake of Irwin Allen's 1972 classic disaster movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2006

As a humanist, I applaud the respect for life, but I miss the campy fun. The movie is, in all senses, a big downer.

Full Review | May 18, 2006

... a waterlogged, unnecessary re-imagining of the cheesy blockbuster from the Seventies heyday of disaster films.

Full Review | May 16, 2006

Throughout the movie, Petersen has a dynamic feel for the rush and heave of the deluge, the pent-up energy, the sheer heft and momentum.

Full Review | May 16, 2006

There are several characters you're happy to see go -- Try not to cheer when Fergie takes a blast of water to the face -- but there's nobody you'd particularly want to save.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 13, 2006

There's never any doubt that some of these uninteresting people will make the passage through hell to the hull, it's only a question of which ones. And whether we'll still be there to see whom.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2006

Where the first film had to rely on stunt work and character conflicts, the remake is action on top of unbelievable action.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2006

Petersen definitely brings a nautical pedigree to the gig -- the man knows from water. He's also wise enough to retain only the essentials from the '72 original, just the title ship and the rogue wave that did it in.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2006

While the ship's survivors are driven to live, Poseidon is never character-driven enough to make us care.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2006

Titanic without the metaphors, the class-consciousness, the love story, or anything resembling a theme, Poseidon invests so little in its screenplay that it might as well be an episode of The Love Boat gone horribly awry.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 12, 2006

It is depressing because Peterson can and has done much better.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2006

I forsee a college drinking game that will require everyone to take a swig every time someone says something like, "Do it or we DIE!"

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2006

When everything suddenly goes topsy-turvy and people begin dying in new and fascinating ways, you really don't see much of a reason to either care about or identify with them.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 11, 2006

Poseidon isn't cute, funny, warm, nice, inspirational or uplifting. It's about the incredible labor of survival in a world turned totally sociopathic in an instant.

| May 11, 2006