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Directed By
Wolfgang Petersen
Written By:
Mark Protosevich, Paul Gallico
Cast:
Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, Mía Maestro, Andre Braugher, Richard Dreyfuss, Freddy Rodriguez, Kevin Dillon, Stacy Ferguson, Kirk B.R. Woller, Gabriel Jarret, Kelly McNair
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Poseidon (2006)
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Movie Review by AJ 
June 5th, 2006
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This is the third high seas disaster flick I've seen from director Wolfgang Petersen. And, so far, only one of them has been good...and it ain't Poseidon, his new mess straight out of the Hollywood playbook (and even the playbook gets a little offended). Admittedly, the special effects are fantastic. And, if this were a video game, that'd be all fine and dandy. Unfortunately, this is a movie, which is supposed to provide three-dimensional characters. The screenplay by Mark Protosevich, taken from the novel by Paul Gallico (which also inspired the famed 1972 flick The Poseidon Adventure, which I have not seen), has almost every single stock character you can think of. The adventurous--and totally uncharismatic--lead, the father who tries in vain to live up to his daughter's image of himself, the man stuck with an unfaithful partner (and this time he's...*gasp*...gay!), the obligatory red shirts who get killed every time. It doesn't help matters that the actors are almost as horrible as the material they've been given. Josh Lucas and Kurt Russell are two of the blandest leads in years, Richard Dreyfuss admirably strives to keep from drowning amdist the waterlogged characterizaton he's saddled with, and Kevin Dillon feels like his Entourage character Johnny Drama trying to pull off a great job amongst a roster of stars (as happens often in the series). The only actor I wholeheartedly believed was Freddy Rodriguez, and...well, I don't want to talk about it. Poseidon may not be as bad as Petersen's last mess, Troy, but it's still the worst big boat movie since Titanic. And, by the by, the only high-stakes sea movie I've dug from Petersen is his 1981 masterpiece Das Boot. Skip this and The Perfect Storm, and go grab Das Boot. You'll thank me.
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