Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

tavm Having been on my DVR since last April, I finally watched this miniseries "Titanic" the last few days with the final hour just now. Because each hour told the story of the before and after from various classes, there were some repeated scenes in each one but with some explanations not explored in one of the other hours. As a result, I found myself moved by some of the characters but confused by others and therefore, not as entertained, or at the least interested, as by the recent re-release of the 1997 James Cameron version, that was converted to 3-D, at the same time as this broadcast, both of which were out in time for the anniversary of that ship's going under a century ago. Really, all I'll now say is if you want to watch yet another version of what happened on that ship with yet another depiction of the ways people acted then, whether fictionalized or not, go watch this version of "Titanic". Just don't expect everything to make perfect sense, at least in my opinion.

J Tegeur The best part of this series is that it shows the true villain of the disaster, Captain Smith. It was outrageously irresponsible for this supposed Master to steam 22 knots into a known area containing ice bergs with a ship that large and slow to turn. Additionally he apparently knew that the sailors in the crows nest did not have the binoculars that they needed for adequate lookout. It was total dereliction of duty by Captain Smith. He should have slowed the ship to a crawl or stopped dead in the water until daylight.I would have to agree with other reviewers that the contrived stories were unnecessary when we now have real accounts of survivors of the disaster whose stories are far more interesting than the apparently fake Earl of Manton whoever he may be. (There was a Baron of Manton, but he was given peerage in 1922 years after the Titanic went under.) Then there is the obligatory cameo of Molly Brown and of course we saw way too much of the adulterous Benjamin Guggenheim, whose mistress was rescued.All in all more accurate than we got from James Cameron.

gradyharp The DVD hasn't been released here yet but the 'mini-series' is now over. It is difficult to call this amalgamation of snippets about an historic tragedy a miniseries because it was spread out so unevenly (3 hours on first night, one hour on second night) and we are now informed that the film is a total of 184 minutes which means that the fourth hour was completely filled with the most distracting and disrupting of commercials. Why this new version of TITANIC wasn't place on cable television where it could have been enjoyed on one uninterrupted three hour showing is beyond understanding. Perhaps when the DVD is released and there are no loud and ugly commercials every 5 minutes the story will hold together.Julian Fellowes, so respected for his writing of such series as Downton Abbey, etc. seems to have the urge to tell the story of the event through quick snippets of personal stories among the passengers - a commendable idea, but when the tiny tales are buried in the almost immediate collision with the iceberg and the attempt to flesh out the story by making it about how tragedy affects people's relationships come as little disconnected pop-ups, it is difficult to care about anybody, much less get to know them well enough to remember them at picture's end. Granted there are some moments before the ship is finished that emphasize the fact that the unsinkable Titanic was rushed to completion before it was safely ready, and those flashbacks to offer some interesting moments.But basically the story is the same as all the other TITANIC movies - a study about class distinction not only among the peerage of Brits but also the differentiation among first, second and third (steerage) classes - with a hefty dollop of snubbing the crass American passengers. Jon Jones directs this amalgamation of ideas. There are some brief but tasty moments for actors such as Glen Blackhall (a memorable Paolo) and Antonio Magro (Paolo's brother Mario), Peter McDonald, Steven Waddington, Ruth Bradley Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville as the Mantons, Toby Jones and Maria Doyle Kennedy, Celia Emrie, James Wilby and Dragos Bucur (the stowaway Russian). The rest of the cast is so little used that they all but disappear.The film was apparently shot on digital video. Some of the effects are fine, but the whole film lacks cohesion - at least on the American release on commercial television!

tleeg1 This is my third attempt...I'll keep it brief..it simply disappears! While one review states too many stories were left out, example Rosa Abbott and her two boys, there are too many stories to tell. The acting was good, costumes great, the set was great. I've been a Titanic fan well before The DiCaprio version, and loved it. Has anyone seen the one with Barbara Stanwyck? Now there's a laugh! And I'm a Barbara Stanwyck fan!They even discussed the dogs...Mr Astors dog Kitty..I don't know about the Pekingese?They could have said more about Margaret Tobin Brown. I understand why they toned that down...some stories have gone overboard on it..however I feel she was integral. I do like how they presented the Countess of Rothes and her personality...not just a staid matron, but very involved.