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(More customer reviews)Ever felt you been here before and yet not...Deja vu, right? NO, it's a bad remake of a classic disaster film.
32 years later, Hallmark Entertainment tries to do a mini series of the Poseidon with modern day updates. Instead of a tidal wave, it is a bomb that inverts the ship upside down. The cop character is now a homeland security agent (Adam Baldwin) dragging a terrorist through the wreckage of the ship to justice. The priest is now a Bishop (Rutger Hauer). The Red Button character from the first movie, now played by Bryan Brown, is now married to singer, an International Idol pop star. The smart kid from the first film is now a junior Speilburg with a video cam that never runs out of battery life. The young girl (Pamela Sue Martin character in the first film) is now the daughter of Steve Guttenberg, a cheating family man who is headed for divorce. Peter Weller is the Captain who character name is the same as the original book's author (Paul Gallico)...a nice touch! You can not fault the actors, they do the best they can with this material..one would blame the script writer who could not make this chestnut revised without treading too close of repeating the deepness of the original
There are a few additions to the remake that does not make this sail any better. Alex (ER) Kingston is a sort of federal international rescue head, the role seem so added at the last minute. A ship's doctor (C. Thomas Howell) who reminds me of DR Bricker from Love Boat.
However, this watered down soap opera is not better than the original in a longer form...in many ways it drags down the audience in this watered down version. In someways, it seem like a LOVE BOAT episode with dramatic melodrama and adventure added in the mix. If you saw the first, most of the same things happen with few changes. The last shot is the ship sinking..THANK GOD NO SEQUAL!
So you want that sinking feeling again, get the originally 1972 film with Gene Hackman, Red Button, Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine and Stella Stevens. The Poseidon Adventure (Special Edition). However This remake misses the epic adventure mark by miles.
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
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As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm, the greatest danger is already on board--a terrorist with an explosive message for the world. Detonated on New Year's Eve, the blast capsizes the ship leaving a motley few--the madman among them--struggling for survival in this upside-down life-and-death drama.Special Feature(s) include:Full High Definition 1080p; 16x9 (1.78:1); 25GB Single Layer; English 5.1 Dolby Digital; English 5.1 Dolby Digital Uncompressed; English 2.0 Stereo; English 2.0 Stereo Uncompressed; Director Featurette with John Putch; Interviews with Adam Baldwin "Mike Rogo," Rutger Hauer "Bishop Schmidt," Steve Guttenberg "Richard Clarke," Bryan Brown "Jeffrey Eric Anderson," Peter Weller "Captain Paul Gallico," and C. Thomas Howell "Dr. Matthew Ballard"; Smart Menu Technology: Browse the menu, on screen, without leaving film
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