Unfortunately, as another reviewer pointed out, the premise is much better than the movie. Really, the premise of a 747 being trapped underwater is very good. And then they just stuck a pedestrian script over it, which seems the doom of those disaster movies only focused on giving screen time to each and every star on the bankroll, and then to the disaster itself.
The beginning is slow but OK. The exposition is sluggish and heavy-handed but you can be content with the cast. It starts getting boring when you'd expect action to pick up: the bad guys are really soft and the exposition here doesn't kick off any substantial suspense. Then you wait for events to unfold and it's pretty lame until the final rescue.
Aside from its premise, the only good reason to watch this movie would be the true-to-life rescue. Yet this last part looks more like what it actually is: a full-scale training for the Navy rescue teams. There would have been more emotion in a documentary about the rescue of an actual wreck. The cast is so wasted here that it's not worth watching, even for Jack Lemmon who is the lead and has some bits of (boring) action to deal with.
The beginning is slow but OK. The exposition is sluggish and heavy-handed but you can be content with the cast. It starts getting boring when you'd expect action to pick up: the bad guys are really soft and the exposition here doesn't kick off any substantial suspense. Then you wait for events to unfold and it's pretty lame until the final rescue.
Aside from its premise, the only good reason to watch this movie would be the true-to-life rescue. Yet this last part looks more like what it actually is: a full-scale training for the Navy rescue teams. There would have been more emotion in a documentary about the rescue of an actual wreck. The cast is so wasted here that it's not worth watching, even for Jack Lemmon who is the lead and has some bits of (boring) action to deal with.