Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

BasicLogic so the radar guy notified the two guys on the tower that an object was on the same course in the opposite direction 6,000 yards away and approaching. those two guys on the tower just took a look in the fog, saw nothing (but of course!) and told the radar watcher to notify them when the distance between them was reaching 3,000 yards. can you believe this kind stupid operation by a u.s. nuclear submarine?! why they had to maintain the cruise course? why they could not adjust the course just a lit bit to avoid any possible crash? were there so many objects in front of the submarine that forced it to maintain their course? well, what a stupid scenario! when the radar guy notified the captain of the foreign cargo ship lost their radar, he ran up to the bridge to notify the captain, he just told the crew to continue the course. one of the bridge member asked the captain: "don't we have to stop the ship to repair the radar first in this heavy fog?" well, if the captain decided to stop the cargo ship, the stupid submarine would still crash into the cargo ship, because the subs would still maintain their crash course. this is such a stupid movie that sickened me to the extreme. a good movie would not bend itself too wide just to make the scenarios serve the development of it so conveniently, overlooking the illogical, ridiculous and unreasonable plot. i just couldn't go on once a stupid premise blindly served the purpose. watching this stupid movie is like after heard the warning of the radar guy they were on a crash course to an approaching object 6,000 yards away, yet the two guys on the conning tower simply told him to notify them when it reached them on the same course @ 3,000 yards. you heard my similar warning here too, but you still decided to maintain on the crash-collision course. good luck and, see you on the bottom of the deep ocean.

shinsrevenge For a movie with Charlton Heston, it is unusual bad. The camera work is an imposition. Many of the "underwater" scenes (like the falling rocks) are actually made ashore and you can see that way to obvious. Special effects are cheap. The plot is unreliable. Whenever the "DSRV" connected to the submarine and they opened the hatch, there wasn't even one drop of water coming down. The story is unnecessarily stretched to the point it hurts. At least in the last half hour it gets a bit better. The overall acting sways between weak and average. It's the first movie I had to give a bad rating and it was a disappointment.I normally enjoy movies with Charlton Heston. In this one it was really hard to just sit about one and a half hours and watch it till the end. But you can't judge a movie when you haven't seen it all.My suggestion is: skip this one.

innocuous A better-than-average disaster movie, due mostly to the absence of any ridiculous scenes. (There are no overweight older Jewish women who won swimming medals many years ago trying to reach the sub, for example.)On the other hand, Ronnie Cox as the first officer goes to pieces very quickly and you wonder why the Navy ever thought he'd be able to command a sub of his own. Also, you've got to ponder the initial collision. The sub's crew basically just lets a freighter in open water run them down, not even noticing that the freighter is in the area until it's too late to do anything about it. Kind of makes you wonder.Heston is restrained in his role, which works out pretty well. Everybody else does a good job (except for Cox) and the special FX are average for the time.Definitely worth watching.

Poseidon-3 This murky disaster film concerns the fate of a nuclear submarine which is carelessly struck by a freighter and sinks 1400 feet beneath the surface. Heston plays the stalwart captain who is just about to give up seafaring when this last voyage turns deadly. Cox is his somewhat adversarial second-in-command. Keach is a stubborn captain heading the rescue effort on topside. Carradine, along with assistant Beatty, is the creator of an experimental mini-sub which may be able to aid in the rescue effort. The initial collision is so poorly handled that it threatens to spoil the film (pitiful rear projection and unclear evacuation of the bridge), but thankfully the interior scenes come off more effectively. A terrific rotating set adds to the verisimilitude. Underwater sequences range from good to horrible. Sometimes the use of miniatures is startlingly obvious. As far as acting goes, Heston is solid and has several great solitary moments along with authoritative ones. (One memorable line: "I feel like a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest!") Carradine and Keach establish a nice antagonism (though Keach is occasionally a little intense, becoming unintentionally funny.) Beatty is an appealing and endearing presence. Eighth-billed Forsyth's role was cut down to almost nothing. She says five words (!) in her one scene. Many of the ing cast come off like either hunky mannequins, bad ham actors or stuntmen giving acting a try (though there are several familiar faces sprinkled throughout, notably Reeves as Keach's shadow.) The film is at it's best when tension mounts in the sub and among the officers on the surface. This is dissipated ridiculously when sailors who may be experiencing their last hours alive play backgammon and watch the movie "Jaws" on their projector (!) acting as if nothing's wrong! The tedium kicks in when the rescue attempt is shown in a bit too much detail (long tracking shots of the rescue vehicles) and repeated tries are shown over and over! Like "Airport '77", the dry naval scenes dull the human element. Jerry Fielding's music is appropriately dirge-like at times and eerie other times (though certain elements were interpolated into his awful score for "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure".) Probably the best moment occurs when the trapped men have to open an air tank. The film should hold interest for a first time viewer as long as one is prepared for a somewhat technical approach to the drama. (And was there ever another film so preoccupied with the state of the injured when the whole sub could implode or slide off a cliff at any moment?)