The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)

The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 TV film directed by John Putch and based on the book of the same name by Paul Gallico.

Plot
On New Year's Eve, a bomb goes off on the SS Poseidon killing all but a few of the 3,700 passengers and crew. Trapped deep inside the bowels of a sinking cruise ship, the survivors make a desperate attempt to negotiate the inverted vessel and escape the encroaching water.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The film is unfaithful to both the novel and the 1972 adaptation.
 * 2) * The film includes an unnecessary terrorist plot that was never even mentioned in the original novel.
 * 3) * The said terrorist plot is even the cause of the ship capsizing. This is due to the fact that the producers doubt that a tidal wave would be big enough to capsize a ship. They obviously haven't researched about rogue waves.
 * 4) * No one from the novel or 1972 film appears at all.
 * 5) On the topic of the ship capsizing, a hole in the hull would actually cause the ship to sink by the stern, not capsize. Sure the ship would develop a list to the side the hole is on, but it certainly wouldn't cause the ship to completely capsize to one side.
 * 6) The acting is terrible, which shows that the actors had no care of being in this movie. What's worse is that it wastes the talent of actors like Adam Baldwin and Peter Weller.
 * 7) The CGI effects, while decent, aren't convincing. Everything made from special effects looks very fake.
 * 8) Laughable dialogue, such as "the ship is sinking".
 * 9) The pacing here is dull and slow and can make the film boring to sit through.
 * 10) There's no excuse for it's unconvincing production values, as the effects of the 2000 Britannic TV film were more convincing.
 * 11) It makes the next adaptation look faithful to the book.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) While the CGI is garbage, the design of the ship is pretty good.
 * 2) The capsizing scene is great to watch, not because it's intense, but because of how laughable it is.
 * 3) While unfaithful to the book, the idea of a terrorist plot to sink a cruise ship is interesting, despite being horribly executed.

Trivia

 * This was the first Poseidon Adventure film to show the ship sinking outside Beyond The Poseidon Adventure.
 * The capsizing scene has become very popular, just like in the 1972 and 2006 films.