Absolutely the worst movie.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I don't think my review has any spoilers, but just in case it does, **SPOILER ALERT**This was not a terrible movie, but, let's be honest: it will probably never make it onto "AFI's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time" List. That being said, yes, we all now know the RMS Titanic did not sink in one piece and raising her would be, on too many levels to list here, a big "NO". My copy of the book has a little forward that the book was written before the Titanic was found. All that aside, I would love to see a new "Raise the Titanic" made closer to the book and with the cast from "Sahara" (Before I ever knew Matthew McConaughey existed, his form (for lack of a better word) was my mental image of Dirk Pitt.)

I remember watching the film on TV in the early eighties and was then, as now, fascinated by the thought of raising the Titanic, however fanciful the thought maybe. Sadly, some 30+ years later the film overall has not aged well - compared to my memory as youngster at least.The plot direction is point to point, no subtleties and not much idea other than to go through the motions of the plot clumsily and in staccato fashion.To be brutally honest the acting is awful, woeful. You can sense the cue for actor's to speak or to move, wooden like. Additionally none of the characters in the film are remotely engaging or have any other function than to shuffle the plot along to it's next chapter.Jason Robards typifies the film itself, solid and simple, no frills and just about believable (acting that is, not the plot line).Onto the plot line, there are more plot holes in it than there were port holes in the Titanic; American's allowing Russians to board a USN cruiser…in the eighties….in the midst of a secret mission. Sea water is saline, mix this with steel and it will corrode; the structure of the Titanic (as we latterly found out was crippled in the sinking) would have been paper thin in places and would have literally fallen apart if it were moved an inch. The standard romance storyline, that sadly is all but essential in this type of film, is half-hearted and again seems paper thin and is included for no good reason other than to create an atmosphere between the "nice guy" scientist and the "tough guy" navy seal.All that said, the film is enjoyable and the time passed by swiftly. The modelling of the Titanic did actually stand up well to time, today's CGI can make 70's and 80's action films look sad and dated, not so with Raise the Titanic, which would put some James Bond films of the time to shame. The viewer can see that the Titanic is a model however the modelling and movement are very realistic and well produced.Overall, Raise the Titanic is a recommended watch.Hope this review was helpful to you.

My view of this movie is colored by the fact that I read the book first. It was my second Clive Clussler novel, and I went on to read almost all of them. When I saw the ad for this movie, I was so excited.Then I watched it. What a huge, huge disappointment. Whoever wrote the script should be shot. Sorry, I shouldn't encourage violence like that. The writer of this script should be chained to a chair and forced to watch this movie in a continuous loop for a year.It is a god awful film, in a world of bad movies. The story made no sense, and they completely cut out the most exciting parts of the book. It makes me wonder, did the idiot who wrote this purposely leave these parts out? Did he have a beef with the studio and purposely do this to make the movie tank? I can't believe this movie actually made a little money. I haven't seen it on TV for many, many years. It's so bad that cable movie channels won't even run it at midnight.The highlight of the book was when the hero Dirk Pitt faces down a team of Soviet agents trying to take ownership of the newly raised Titanic, in the middle of a hurricane. For the movie, they reduced this entire conflict down to the Soviet showing up at the dock and trying to claim the ship as property of the USSR, and being told no.I came away believing that Cussler sold out on this movie, took the money and turned his back on it. I know if I could have stood by and watch them mutilate the book like this.For 31 years, anytime some asks what's the worse movie I've ever seen, this is always the first title that pops to mind. I might need to watch it again so I can laugh at how bad it is.

I remember years ago as a child when I heard about this movie when it was about to be released, and I was thrilled - I was obsessed with the Titanic as a child. When it didn't get released in my city, I was pretty annoyed. It did get me to seek out a copy of the novel the movie was based on and read it - I thought the novel was pretty good, and it got me to read additional novels by Clive Cussler (which I think are pretty good adventure yarns.) Years later, I did finally get to see the movie, but I forgot pretty much all of it as additional years progressed. Seeing the movie was now on DVD, I decided to give it another go.It didn't take me long into the movie to discover the most likely reason I had forgotten the movie. This is an incredibly slow and boring movie. There's no sense of awe or excitement. Much of the movie consists of people talking endlessly or underwater footage of mini submarines cruising along at a very slow speed. The filmmakers ignored the various adventures in the book, and simply didn't seem to see the potential of adding new (and thrilling) stuff during the screen adaptation.Is there any good stuff here? Well, the actual ship raising is fairly thrilling (though the majority of the other special effects in the movie are surprisingly crummy.) There is a good score by John Barry (though they keep repeating the same bars of his music over and over.) Alec Guinness adds some life to the movie with his brief appearance. (The rest of the cast, while not really bad, seem to be performing with little enthusiasm.) But this little good stuff is not nearly enough to save the movie.) P.S. - Lions Gate should be embarrassed by the DVD they put out for this movie. Not only is the movie presented in full-screen (except for the opening/closing credits), they used an old master made for one of the movie's VHS releases!