Falling and climbing, flames and water, unlikely heroes and unexpected deaths... The Poseidon Adventure isn't really a disaster movie, it's an action flick. Be as cynical as you like about the abysmal fashions (few films show so many men in roll-neck jumpers) and worrying dialogue ("That beautiful son of a bitch was right"), but once Gene Hackman's defrocked vicar starts leading his band of tattered survivors up through the capsized wreckage of an ocean liner, it digs in the hooks and won't let go.
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