I"m a sucker for this type of movie. Throw a bunch of B-level "that guy" type actors together and add some life or death situation where one of them must rise to the occasion and I'm hooked. Ordinarily I complain about a lack of story in the trailers but in this case I don't care. As the Super Bowl spot, viewable here at the movie's official site, shows, there isn't likely to be much of a story in the movie as a whole - just a huge honkin' wave. This might be the best escapism movie of the summer, especially with Kurt Russell obviously phoning in a performance. I'm a little surprised they didn't shoehorn a romance in here somewhere since that would have been an obvious rip-off of Titanic and trailers are basically supposed to remind you of other movies you might have liked. Good stuff from Warner Bros. on this one.
1. It's a remake of The Poseiden Adventure... Do they really need to include the story in the trailer?
Posted at 10:02PM on Feb 5th 2006 by John