What is hard to imagine is this movie could be a great idea. In fact, if there was just a focus on the 1938 story or on the modern story so that the characters would be developed better it would be an improvement. Instead, this film tries to make the Queen Mary sinkable. Unfortunately, it succeeds to do just that.
The cast characters are never developed properly. Special effects and camera work are very good. Trouble is this good stuff does not overcome the a script that appears muddled with too many plots and switches between 2 stories that might have had late minute updates while shooting and nothing about connections of the plots.
The best thing is some of the history of the Queen Mary being brought into the film with clips mentioning some of the famous who were on the ship and Fred Astair dance clip is okay. Actor who plays Fred is way too tall, but that makes little difference as even his script is a little lacking.
I wish this was better as the ideas could be made into a good film. Even Alice Eve getting carted off in the police car at the end for murdering her son is not really handled that well as far as the writing and why she would have murdered him makes no sense.
The cast characters are never developed properly. Special effects and camera work are very good. Trouble is this good stuff does not overcome the a script that appears muddled with too many plots and switches between 2 stories that might have had late minute updates while shooting and nothing about connections of the plots.
The best thing is some of the history of the Queen Mary being brought into the film with clips mentioning some of the famous who were on the ship and Fred Astair dance clip is okay. Actor who plays Fred is way too tall, but that makes little difference as even his script is a little lacking.
I wish this was better as the ideas could be made into a good film. Even Alice Eve getting carted off in the police car at the end for murdering her son is not really handled that well as far as the writing and why she would have murdered him makes no sense.