Poseidon
2006
**½
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Mia Maestro
This remake tells the story of the capsized luxury cruise liner in half the time with much improved special effects, and it manages to create some moments of believable terror. Otherwise the film offers nothing we didn't see in The Poseidon Adventure or in numerous other disaster films. A group of cardboard characters are introduced in a hurry and then thrown into peril. It isn't too hard to guess the casualties.
