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Dominican Rep. Poseidon
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Adventure. Action
A remake of the 1972 disaster classic, about a luxury ocean liner that capsizes from a colossal tidal wave, leaving it's survivors to fend for themselves as they find a way out. It's New Year's Eve and festivities have begun aboard the luxury cruise Poseidon, at sea in the North Atlantic. One of the finest vessels of its kind, Poseidon stands more than 20 stories tall, boasts 800 staterooms and 13 passenger decks. Tonight, many of the ... [+]
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"'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'" | NEG |
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"There's nothing hip or ironic about 'Poseidon', which makes Russell and Lucas the perfect leading men." | NEU |
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"An extremely well-crafted exercise in physical invention and fear. Yet within those limits--the limits of a pop-digital survival drama--Poseidon is an exciting show." | POS |
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"'Poseidon' is devoid of anything that might conjure up memories of the Winslet/DiCaprio coupling. Its straightforward action/adventure approach is both a strength and a weakness." | NEU |
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"Pretty much pure boilerplate: a reasonably well-executed throwaway that, when you finally get around to seeing it in its proper setting, will make you glad you decided to travel by air instead of by sea." | NEU |
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"It's a buoyant, old-wave disaster pic for a generation of well-conditioned thrill seekers" | POS |
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"Among the willing cast, only Jacinda Barrett and topliners Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss manage, just barely, to suggest a third dimension to the script's cursory character sketches" | NEU |
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"Maybe it's the era we're living in, but the new film is as much fun as a shroud." | NEG |
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"Exciting and nerve-racking in the moment, but empty." | NEU |
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