POSEIDON, a remake or I must say a badly revemped version of the 1972 hit adventure movie ’The Poseidon Adventure’ is the latest movie I’ve watched. I was waiting for a long time to watch a real god movie worthy of watching at the IMAX screen in Hyderabad. I had already watched the original and I am not somebody who’d watch movies twice, but I was really impressed by the original that I thought this would be a perfect movie to watch at the IMAX screen n it’d b really gr8 to watch the new version. I got lucky on my former assumption ONLY, yes, its a really awe-inspiring experience watchin this movie on the huge IMAX screen. The BIG ship and the BIG adventure fits the BIG screen perfectly.
Coming to the movie I was really dissapointed. REALLY ! The cast was good with some old faces and some new(to me). Was interesting seeing the stars in different roles ( again to me ) Kurt russel as a dad to a 20 yr old, Josh lucas as a marine and a lil surprising to see Richard Dreyfuss back after he announced his retirement !
As far the storyline goes, I must confess I have to give it to Hollywood to make whole movies out of all possible situations, scenarios and teeny-tiny issues and sometime comeup with real good ones !
The story goes like this, on the night of new years eve, everybody aboard the POSEIDON is havin a nice time while counting down to the new year when suddenly, the POSEIDON is hit by a rouge wave and is capsized by the enourmous force of the giagantic wave. THIS is one scene that is really great watching on the big screen. From then the story is about how the ’adventurous few’ take the risk to get out of the ship rather than sit and wait to die.
I really can’t help compare this movie to the original. I was really moved after watching the original coz there was lot of emotion and sentiment and I didnt even twitch watching the ’emotional’ scenes in this movie and it was not because I watched it before but because of the fact that it was JUST NOT THERE !!! I felt that the movie went too fast and it was too ’cold’ not because of the water pouring in from all around but because the scenes were kind of ’mechanical’.
There was not really much of the ’tension’ aspect that an adventure like this should be having. I mean there wasn’t much time for the audience to get tensed as the heroes keep finding escape routes very quickly almost as if the had the script b4 it had all started ;)
On the whole, my suggestion would be, if u like the whole audio visual experience at the theatres, watch it, preferably on the IMAX screen. If you’re looking for a good movie with a good story and screenplay., u can give this movie a miss and better rent the original version and watch it at home.