Old-fashioned disaster movie that dispenses with such fripperies as character development, dialogue and narrative surprise; its cast is so devoid of personality that it becomes difficult to remember who's dead and who's alive.

We bet you'd hate it! Score another correct analysis for Criticker. This movie was just lame.

Good remake.

Beyond predictable with terrible dialogue, but it managed to stay tense, and the flaming flume of feces was disgustingly cool. The fact that I've never seen the original probably helps.

One of the worst movies ever: No character introduction whatsoever, no explanations, just a big wave. This is so stupid it's even fun to watch - scary.

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I knew the Poseidon Adventure. And you, sir, are no Poseidon Adventure.

I liked it. I really liked it. It had suspense, action, romance, the pacing was good, the acting was good. I found very little not to like in this movie. If you expecting intelligence and surprises, this isn't that movie. You just wanna be entertained? This is it. The plot? We must go up. That's it, folks. It's a simple movie.

Big nothing

Peterson does love his boats. But does anyone love this film? Doubt it.

Those characters could die twice and I still wouldn't care.

"Poseidon recognizes and encourages belief in the popular popcorn-movie theory of The Survival of the Whitest." - Ed Gonzalez

The only good thing was Mike Vogel.

First 20 minutes of this suck. Everything up to the big wave. The problem is, none of the characters we're introduced to are likeable. The opposite for the most part. So your waiting for the wave, which is inevitable but shouldn't be the case. In all event movies your waiting for the event, but the characters should make the wait worthwhile. Here they don't. The wave is pretty and everything, the whole set piece is very well done but what follows is basically a bigger budget version of one o