Poseidon's Opening Weekend

Wolfgang Petersen's "Poseidon," a re-telling of Paul Gallico's classic novel "The Poseidon Adventure" opened yesterday to mixed reviews.

On the good side:

Detroit Free-Press ("Petersen takes all the elements and polishes them to a shine...")

Rolling Stone ("This remake whups the original's ass.")

Entertainment Weekly ("A tour-de-force!")

On the bad:

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

and, the Newark Star-Leger.

I have been looking forward to this film since it was announced back in the spring of 2004. As a huge fan of Gallico's novel - and of the classic 1972 film version - I was interested to see what a director of Wolfgang Petersen's stature would bring to the story.

Overall, I am pretty impressed. My full review tomorrow.