To its credit, Wolfgang Petersen's $160 million remake of the disaster-movie classic THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) moves briskly, running a solid 20 minutes shorter than the original. Unfortunately, all the time saved comes out of the movie's front end, so while it delivers a first-rate spectacle of destruction — viewers with low thresholds for claustrophobic spaces, relentlessly encroaching water and live electrical wires whipping around like angry snakes, be warned — the film's computer-generated ordeals by fire and water are battled by a soggy collection of broadly drawn characters. Petersen brings on the big wave fast and hard: We've barely met them — looking-out...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
99 mins