In this remake of the 1972 disaster classic 'The Poseidon Adventure' (1972) , a luxury ocean liner capsizes from a colossal tidal wave, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves as they find a way out. Read more
| Starring | Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss |
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| Director | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Thriller |
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In this remake of the 1972 disaster classic 'The Poseidon Adventure' (1972) , a luxury ocean liner capsizes from a colossal tidal wave, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves as they find a way out.
| Starring | Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Jimmy Bennett, Emmy Rossum, Mike Vogel, Mía Maestro, Andre Braugher, Kevin Dillon, Freddy Rodríguez |
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| Director | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 38 mins |
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| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 09 Oct 2006 Blu-ray: not available HD DVD: 15 Jan 2007 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
Why is there such an air of inevitability about this? Because the crowd-pleasing analogue spectacle of The Poseidon... read more on Time Out
Poseiden's action sequences are efficiently handled, conjuring a genuine sense of lung-busting tension
I found this awful....i kept thinking about the fantastic original film, i couldn't help it because the storyline was pretty much copied. The actors were very unconvincing and i didn't care what happened to them (unlike Shelly Winters in the original), the script was very basic throughout with one liners like 'there must be another way out' or 'quick the waters rising' all said without much conviction, i'm afraid i didn't feel for any of them at all. Very very poor re-make IMO, i wouldn't recommend it unless perhaps you hadn't seen the original.
Thought this was one of the better remake's! Worth a watch even if you do know the ending!
Pierce Brosnan is teaming up with Uma Thurman to play a pair of Greek gods in a big-screen adaptation of the Percy Jackson children's books. The duo will star in Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief, an adaptation of Rick Riordan's first novel in his popular five-part series. The story is based on Greek mythology and centres around young Percy Jackson, who discovers that he is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea. Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, and Melina Kanakaredes have also been added to the cast Read more