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www.filmthreat.com - : Eric Shea, who played the kid in “The Poseidon Adventure”, needs to be brought forth at a future Academy Awards ceremony for an Honorary Oscar because Jimmy Bennett, who plays the so-tiny-he-threatens-to-shrink Conor James in this one, literally does not act. He says a few lines to his mother, Maggie (Jacinda Barrett), basically trying to reach out toward any audience in showing that he cares about her, but there’s no emotion. Oh sure there’s the usual kid tears, and frightened glances as the band of survivors ascends upward, but what child actor hasn’t learned that already? more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Irwin Allen would be proud. Poseidon is a throwback - a 1970s-style disaster film made with 2006-era special effects. The movie delivers in most of the ways that matter for a motion picture of this ilk, with Poseidon never trying to be something it isn't. It's about a group of two-dimensional humans battling bad luck and Mother Nature in a sea-based disaster that makes Titanic look like a pleasure cruise. There's enough uncertainty about who's going to live and who's going to die to maintain a bit of suspense until the end, although it's more a question of mild curiosity than having a vested interest. more...
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www.reelingreviews.com - : It's New Year's Eve and hundreds of revelers are partying down. Resentful Jennifer Ramsey (Emmy Rossum, ''The Day After Tomorrow,'' ''The Phantom of the Opera'') slips off to the disco with her secret fiance Christian (Mike Vogel, ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,'' ''Rumor Has It...'') blowing her unsuspecting dad's high stakes poker hand on her way out. Professional card shark Dylan Johns (Josh Lucas, ''Stealth,'' ''Glory Road'') hits on the single mother (Jacinda Barrett, ''Ladder 49,'' as Maggie James) of precocious young Conor James (kid in jeopardy specialist Jimmy Bennett, ''The Amityville Horror,'' ''Firewall''). Richard Nelson (Richard Dreyfuss, ''Jaws,'' ''Mr. Holland's Opus'') buys an expensive bottle of wine for his table, announces that his gay lover has just dumped him, and leaves, but when he climbs over a deck rail preparing to jump he is astonished to be greeted by a one hundred foot wave on the horizon - one that is heading right for the luxury liner ''Poseidon.'' more...
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