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The visual effects are decent, but the CGI of the Poseidon is absolutely amazing.The film was evidently made to cash in on James Cameron's Titanic.Aside from showing the fact that the ship is sinking, the scene showing everyone drowning in the ballroom is pointless and serves no purpose.It is never explained how the bow thrusters were still working after the ship capsized, as the engine room would've been damaged beyond repair.A very out of place and poorly executed joke making it like a rescue team arrived by boat to pick up the survivors like in the original only for it to turn out to be a cable.Like Titanic II, the wave itself also looks too much like a tsunami even though it's in the middle of the ocean.In the original 1972 The Poseidon Adventure, the tidal wave is triggered by an earthquake.But most of the deaths that are meant to be significant to the plot end up being pointless as none of us care what happens to these characters due to their lack of development. As a disaster movie, it should have a large kill count.Example when the ship finally capsizes completely, the sound effect sounds very identical to someone throwing up. While sometimes the sound mixing is fine, some of it sounds really off.Though the acting is decent, there are some laughable errors like when Dylan forces Elena into the air duct and she screams "NO JOSH" (referring to Dylan's actor, Josh Lucas).Even if they couldn't hold on to him, it was still an awful way to kill off a character. In the elevator shaft scene, the characters literally left Marco to get crushed by a falling elevator and show little signs of refusal.After the ship capsizes, Captain Michael Bradford tells everyone to stay put and orders the bulkheads to be locked even though they're in a submerged ballroom of a sinking ship.The characters in the film are either boring or forgettable.Despite the over one and a half hour running time, anyone who watches this film will feel like it was too short due to the extremely fast pacing throughout most of the film.Inconsistent pacing before the tidal wave capsizes the Poseidon, everything is flowing normally with plenty of character development, yet when the disaster happens, everything goes too fast with too much action scenes and little room to know more about the characters.As the wrecked vessel fills with water, the survivors must call on hidden strengths and skills to face the fight of their lives. As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn't even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other.After a huge tidal wave capsizes a luxury liner in the North Atlantic, individual survivors (Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett) band together and traverse a hazardous upside-down maze that they hope will take them to safety.

Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets off through the disorienting maze of twisted steel in the upside-down wreckage.

Along the way they are joined by a single mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her wise-beyond-his-years son (Jimmy Bennett), an anxious stowaway (Mia Maestro) and a despondent fellow passenger (Richard Dreyfuss) who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn't want to die. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others as Dylan is followed by a desperate father (Kurt Russell) searching for his daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her fiancé (Mike Vogel), a young couple who hours before couldn't summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler John Dylan (Josh Lucas) ignores captain's orders (Andre Braugher) to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives.