Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 81 | Rotten: 17
A mostly unqualified triumph for Cameron, who offers a dizzying blend of spectacular visuals and old-fashioned melodrama.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 8
A mostly unqualified triumph for Cameron, who offers a dizzying blend of spectacular visuals and old-fashioned melodrama.
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This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200 million, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the time of its release, and became the most successful. Writer-director James Cameron employed state-of-the-art digital
Apr 4, 2012 Wide
Aug 31, 1999
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (98) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (89) | Rotten (17) | DVD (48)
Now it can be told: The Titanic went down because of two distracting smoochers on the poop deck.
A spectacular demonstration of what modern technology can contribute to dramatic storytelling.
Titanic is a good, often stunning movie caught in a three-and-a-half hour drift.
This is Cameron at his best.
Titanic is big, bold, touchingly uncynical filmmaking.
Titanic runs well enough in the backstretch of intrigue and contrivance to cross the finish line well ahead of all but a few of the screen's superspectacles in this century.
Great movie, but not appropriate for all kids.
Exactly what it says on the label: a deliciously overwrought melodramatic love story, capped off with one of the greatest special effects achievements of the 1990s.
Feeling dispassionate about Titanic is a bit like being stranded alone on the North Atlantic.
Extravagant, exhilarating, devastating, poetic, romantic and totally unforgettable, Titanic is an extraordinary achievement in film making, where technology astounds, yet the human story shines even brighter
You will walk out of Titanic not talking about budget or running time, but of its enormous emotive power, big as the engines of the ship itself, determined as its giant propellers to gouge into your heart, and as lasting as the love story that propels it.
In the end, Cameron's monumental epic still prises open the tear ducts.
The 10th anniversary edition DVD is deceptively well-endowed with extras.
Cameron skillfully applies sophisticated special effects to classic American storytelling, resulting in a winning combination of a tale that's modern and old-fashioned, delivering the goods expected of the disaster genre.
There is nothing to dislike about this film.
Perhaps the most melancholy thing about Titanic is its celebration of romantic ideals to the exclusion of such self-denying virtues as honor, duty, and heroism.
Cost: well over $200m. Disregarding the ethics of such expenditure on a film, this unprecedented extravagance has not resulted in sophisticated or even very satisfying storytelling.
A brilliantly designed, but emotionally shallow romance set during the infamous sinking of the luxury liner in 1912.
Im just gonna put it out there. It wasn't great but it was fine. (avatar 80%)
January 4, 2012
Super Reviewer
A fair film, quite possibly the only film that still makes the people weep.
October 25, 2011
Super Reviewer
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