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(1 - 50) of 56 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   12   > Next "A handful of the passengers may eventually get out of the ship alive, but nothing, it seems, can save them from Mark Protosevich's sinking script. At least it looks good as it goes down."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel C "While the film is successful in building tension and dread in several scenes, this is a largely predictable and unintentionally hilarious affair."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 1/5 "Poseidon is 90 minutes of endless meandering, heroics via happenstance and shoddy F/X work."   DVD Verdict   Bill Gibron 4/10 "A one-way, all-inclusive ticket to the port of Achingly Earnest on the sunny shores of Dullsville."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens B- "The director knows how to hammer tension out of the moment, and when Poseidon concentrates on being a tight-lipped, full throttle disaster film, it's persuasive and exquisite snuff entertainment."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf A- "From Wolfgang Petersen's majestic 360-degree pan of the enormous modern-day luxury cruise ship that will be capsized by a 150-foot tidal wave to his deliberately caliginous closing shot, "Poseidon" is a nerve-wracking thrill ride."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Why cast Andre Braugher and then not use him?"   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "The 'Morning After' sleeping pill.""   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger B "'Titanic' went down to the tune of $600 million, so it's no surprise that 'Poseidon' is now rising from the depths. Action-packed yet thematically barren, it will rivet audiences, if only momentarily."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "Here we get the impression that the only thing on the minds of these filmmakers is how well they can polish up a turd before throwing it at unsuspecting audiences."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 2.5/4 "...[director Wolfgang] Petersen once again proves that he's a master at this sort of thing."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/4 "A rousing, slam-bang, no-frills action extravaganza."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman .5/4 "Poseidon recognizes and encourages belief in the popular popcorn-movie theory of The Survival of the Whitest."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C- "Poseidon does for disaster movies what Airplane! did for disaster movies."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "A longer version could have either corrected or further exposed many of the flaws in a film that's more of an excursion than a full-blown adventure."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "But for a couple of expensive shots, Wolfgang Petersen's film plays like a particularly well-made anonymous made-for-tv disaster adventure. It's pretty good, but it is what it is."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "Where the original had the distinct flavor of 1970s kitsch ... Petersen's movie has loads of CGI and a cameo appearance from Black Eyed Peas front woman Fergie."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 2/4 "Sadly, this flamboyant floatable fantasy sinks faster than a battered buoy in the harbor. Overblown and overproduced....an arbitrary and impersonal big event flick."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D+ "The effects are okay, if that's all that matters to you; but everything else is just melodramatic flotsam and jetsam more likely to generate laughs than excitement."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A disaster film that goes blub blub in the night."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Petersen sets out to give us a group of undeveloped stock characters and a bunch of cheap thrills, and that's what he delivers."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Poseidon is all rather well-done and suspenseful - think Titanic, but without the boring romantic bits and you'll know what to expect of the movie."   SA Movie & DVD Magazine   James O'Ehley 2.5/4 "Easier to forgive the sodden clichés and jump on board the nautical roller coaster ride."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 4/10 "The way people are disposed of here feels horror-movie gratuitous... Feel that Final Destination glee as a falling man is impaled and then crushed by a flaming elevator."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 4/10 "Clearly no 'Titanic' and not as much fun as the original."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 5/10 "At the end of the day though, this film simply didn't cut it as a full-blown summer action thriller..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/5 "It is just so miraculously funny that you find yourself being swept up in the ludicrously of it all and there can be no arguing with the sheer attention-to-detail in the effects work, which is breathtaking in its extravagance."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 6/10 "...no one seems to have provided Petersen with anything more than an action script and a special-effects team."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 3/10 "Puts the 'less' in 'mindless.'"   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/4 "Típico filme de entretenimiento: palomero, sin necesidad de utilizar mucho las neuronas, bien hecho, atractivo y con el que se va a desperdiciar hora y media de la vida sin remordimiento alguno."   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 3/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3.5/5 "They took the Adventure out of the title, but Adventure is ALL that was left in. A great ride, with zero substance."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 1.0/4.0 "In the rush to make something for everyone, the final product is almost nothing for anyone... Waterworld gave you more bang for the buck..."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2.5/5 "Poseidon is all about the disaster, and that in itself is a disaster... Still, at least we didn't have to watch soggy Shelly Winters on screen for 90 minutes."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "...a special effects action adventure that is so obviously going through its disastrous motions that tedium sets in when you're not recalling the superior ballroom ballistics of Brian De Palma's Carrie."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 4.0/5.0 "A very entertaining summer action flick"   Monsters At Play   Lawrence P. Raffel 2/4 "Overall it's slick, brainless entertainment, but brainless entertainment built on crushed and waterlogged corpses."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh C- "Poseidon, [Petersen's] remake of the 1972 disaster flick The Poseidon Adventure, is lean and mean yet waterlogged by the bland characters scurrying for their lives."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[J]ust wants to be Hollywood brainless and old-fashioned about putting gorgeous people in danger and blowing stuff up real good (who knew there was so much on a cruise ship that could explode so spectacularly?)..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "The film is concerned only with getting to the action, with no intention of exploring the horror of an unexpected tragedy or its impact on the people involved."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "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!" "   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C- "Its ever-present underlying racial politics [mirror] those of dunderheaded '80s B-horror movies."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Eficiente dentro de suas limitações, só não se iguala ao original por não ter tanta paciência em investir um pouquinho mais de tempo em seus personagens."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3/5 "In the plus column, Poseidon is a tightly-paced action movie that doesn’t depend too much on special effects for its thrills. The problem remains the characters themselves."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3.5/5 "The filmmakers know what they're doing, and have fun taking us along for the ride."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D+ "Is this what we've been reduced to? A film whose noise and explosions are separated from the season's other noise and explosions solely by the fact that they're painted blue?"   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "This is one of those unnecessary remakes that Hollywood regurgitates about once a month whether anybody is interested in them or not."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 1.5/5 "Who lives, who dies, who cares? I didn't."   Film Threat   Rory L. Aronsky 3.5/5 "For all its narrative road-blocks, pot-holes, and speed-bumps, when Poseidon sticks to its checklist of tightly-conjoined action scenes, it's a pretty enjoyable affair."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 2/4 "A big, dumb disaster movie that grows more ridiculous as it proceeds."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell  (1 - 50) of 56 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   12   > Next