The Poseidon Adventure (2005)

Remaking a movie with better technology for special effects has become a driving force in Hollywood, sometimes it works , and sometimes it doesn't. Then there are times when the film makers try to enhance the original storyline to constitute the remake, and we end up with the same results. This was the first remake of the classic film, The Poseidon Adventure, and starred Adam Baldwin and Steve Guttenburg. With references to the original film throughout the story, even giving the Captain of the ship the name of the novels author, Paul Gallico, isn't enough to draw fans of the classic film in.
A terrorist cell attacks the cruise ship Poseidon and when a bomb detonates it capsizes the ship, and a handful of survivors fight to reach the exposed hole to escape. Even though this story stays pretty close to the original some of the changes to the plot just don't work. Removing the tidal wave to capsize the ship, and replacing it with a bomb is just to improbable to swallow. The characters are another problem this movie has, they are so stale that at no time are you concerned if they make it out alive or not. The comradary of the characters and the tension that builds up in the original is lost here, and its evident from the very beginning.
As a fan of the original story and film I was leery of the fact that the studio decided to remake this story, just the idea to use a terrorist bomb to flip the ship seemed far fetched even for Hollywood. But thankfully they tried one more time and got it right, with "Poseidon," starring Kurt Russell. So if you have a choice on which version to watch, I'd say the original or the 2006 remake, don't waste your time with this one.