The Sinkable Ship

As summer blockbuster with mission cashing in mulla from the cinemas worldwide, one ship fated to sink this year. The sinkable ship does not have any mercy and it does not pick its victim. It kills whatever in it. However, a group of cruiser does not want the ship to take their life away, thus they find their way out of the ship and that is climbing and swimming their way from the top to the bottom. They must stick together if they want to survive from this merciless sinkable ship. Welcome to the world of 'Poseidon'.

This movie is a remake of classic 1972's 'The Poseidon Adventure' starring Gene Hackman. The remake helm by Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm) on Director's chair and writing credits goes to Mark Protosevich (screenplay) and Paul Gallico (novel).

The first 20 minutes or so, the viewers given a brief introduction about the ship via a grand opening scene and then a brief introduction as well to our survivor. Then, during the coundown to the New Year, on the count of 10, 9, 8 ,7 ,6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (what a good way to countdown your own disaster), wham bam yes mam, the ship hit by massive rogue wave (unknown phenomena) and turn it upside down. And so the adrenaline of the movie kicks off.

Petersen gave us heart stomping non stop actions, mega explosive scenes, dive and swim around the ship accompanied with oh, ah, eee, ew and screaming-NO scenes. Petersen also gave us heroes, calm hero, survivor that meant to be die as they not contributing anything to the movie (sound like reality tv show eh), irritating girl who claustrophobic, mother and her kid who have a guts to join the surviving-cruise-adventure and unmemorable scenes and characters. In fact, as am writing this, i barely recalled any of the scenes at all.

I have yet to watch the original 'Poseidon' however, overall, I found that this movie is a feel-good movie that you wanna watch beside contributing to the Hollywood slumped movie industry. There is no story-line, just escaping. Not many conversation, just action, screaming, yelling and yes escaping. No 'you jump, i jump' and 'I am the king of the world, wooohoo' scene, just 'Conor, are you alright', 'daddy..', 'mommy..' and yes escaping. Yes, escaping is what have been planted in the survivor's mind and the ship is meant to be sinked. And yes, the movie will sink away and left forgotten but maybe not for Stacy Ferguson a.k.a Fergie Ferguson of Black Eyes Pea as she pouting her lips while singing on the Poseidon's ship that makes us mesmerised for a while!

The Cast: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russel, Emmy Rossum, Richard Dreyfuss, Mia Maestro

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Official Website: www.poseidonmovie.com

Rating: 3.5 out of 5