From Asylum, the company that did a straight to dvd version of Sherlock Holmes, War of the Worlds, and Princess of Mars.
The story: a new gigantic, unsinkable boat called Titanic 2 sets sail and has problems with an iceberg, getting hit once by the iceberg and then getting hit by a tidal wave that capsizes the boat and kills everyone in the life rafts. The two main characters are trapped in the sinking boat and have to be rescued by the girl's father.
Was it good?
No.
But like with all the Asylum titles it isn't really as horrible as it should. It's a bad b-movie. It's a shame because these titles could be made a little smarter and a little better and be actually good. For instance, there is no characterization here, no arc, no people that we care about. It would have taken no more money (production-wise) to change the characters so we care about them as this disaster is happening. And like I've said before -- stories are about fascination. So what here was supposed to be fascinating? It's not the global warming aspect of the iceberg -- that's given short shrift. It's not the giant disaster aspect -- they don't really go into any details about what is going on. It's all buzz words and lots of running around. So how hard would it be to find one thing that was especially fascinating and really take the time (writing wise) to bring that out? It could be about the billionaire and the folly of money, or about people vs nature or about self-sacrifice as people tried to save others. But here there's none of that. It's all just flat.
Still, for a bad b-movie it at least movies along. But if you're looking for a movie, you can do better.
*** AVOID ***
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