Rent Poseidon (2006)

2.9 of 5 from 224 ratings
1h 34min
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Synopsis:
Its New Year's Eve on the Poseidon - a state of the art cruise liner on its way to New York - as partying voyagers lift their glasses and toast the future, little do they realise their predicament. Rapidly approaching is a 150-foot rogue wave that when it strikes, Poseidon is turned upside down. Director Wolfgang Petersen returns to the sea with a thrill-packed, edge of your seat action feature. Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss and Emmy Rossum are among the group of survivors that are determined to try to fight their way to the surface through the disorienting upside-down maze of twisted steel.
As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water and explosions burst around them, they fight against time for their own survival and for each other.
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Directors:
Producers:
Mike Fleiss, Akiva Goldsman, Duncan Henderson, Lorne Orleans, Wolfgang Petersen
Writers:
Mark Protosevich, Paul Gallico
Others:
John Frazier, Chas Jarrett, Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri
Studio:
Warner
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Thrillers
Collections:
A Brief History of Cinema Afloat: Part 2, All the Best: A Celebration of New Year Movies
BBFC:
Release Date:
09/10/2006
Run Time:
94 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English, English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Poseidon: A Ship on a Soundstage: Making a Modern Adventure Movie
  • Theatrical Trailer
BBFC:
Release Date:
19/04/2010
Run Time:
98 minutes
Languages:
Brazilian Portuguese Dolby Digital 5.1, Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
Brazilian, Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Poseidon: A ship on a soundstage: The complexities of making a modern adventure movie
  • A shipmate's diary: A film school intern's experience on the set
  • Poseidon: Upside down: A unique set design chronicles
  • The History channel documentary Rogue Waves: Explore the mystery of the powerful phenomenon of nature

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Reviews (2) of Poseidon

That Sinking Feeling - Poseidon review by CP Customer

Spoiler Alert
23/11/2006

Director Wolfgang Peterson seems to be in such a terrible hurry with Poseidon - everything moves at such a fast pace that the characters - and the viewers - rarely have enough time to stop for a mouthful of air. And while the movie campy fun and as suspenseful as the original 1972 Poseidon Adventure, the film is certainly short and most definitely to the point. However, you really have to suspend disbelief at much of what you see transpiring.

In this remake you see lots of extras die as their world is turned upside down one New Year's Eve, with little warning once the "rogue wave" is sighted and heads towards the doomed luxury liner. Overcome by flooding, shorting electricity and baked by flash fires, the expendable masses yield with barely more than a shocked glimpse, hands clapped over mouths and last-minute hugs with total strangers.

As the Disco and swimming pool, galleys and grand suites and of course the grand ballroom go belly-up, there's the bunch of heroic characters that defy the Captain and decide to head-onward and upward through the waterlogged, overturned ship in feats that call for a deep-sea suspension of disbelief, but no matter, because the delectable Josh Lucas leads this eclectic, mismatched gang, and wouldn't you follow him!

Alas, there's no Shelly Winters-like character in this version. The protagonists all come across, as rather nameless and faceless, blandness is the order of the day here. Kurt Russell plays a devoted father, and the ex-Mayor of New York Richard Dreyfuss is lamenting being dumped by his boyfriend, Josh Lucas is a gambler and I think a fireman - which is why of course he knows the workings of the luxury liner backwards.

Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mia Maestro, Mike Vogel and Kevin Dillon round at the crowd. And they all have remarkably strong lung capacity, considering how long they have to spend underwater! But it doesn't really matter who's who, or who will sink or swim because once the ship flips, character development isn't high on the list of this movie's agenda.

Obviously the special effects are what it's all about and there's tons and tons of rushing water, exploding electrical circuits, people caught in air-conditioning shafts and being burnt to death by sudden fires - it's all big and loud and contains some expert stunt work and superb integration of digital technology.

The direction is mostly crisp and although it all gets a bit repetitious towards the end - it also becomes hard to figure out what is going on - the film mostly works because it steps up its dramatic speed early on, and its pacing never falters. Mike Leonard August 06.

0 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

Better than expected re-make - Poseidon review by CP Customer

Spoiler Alert
02/12/2006

I always loved watching the original as a kid and actually expected not to like this much. It was therefore a pleasant surprise to find myself watching an edge-of-the-seat thriller/disaster movie with great special effects. I have read some reviews saying that you don't really care about the characters but I did not find this at all. There were the annoying ones that it was quite a relief to see killed off, but there were also some that showed courage and compassion. The special effects when the boat turns turtle were dramatic and, I thought, realistic. A word of warning - try to remember to breathe during the underwater scenes!

0 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

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