Fresh
This hour-long feature, edited down from 900 hours of footage, is both a technical marvel and a heartfelt memorial to those who died when the ship sank in 1912.
Ted Shen, Chicago Reader
Ghosts of the Abyss
The legend no one can forget has become the greatest 3D adventure ever filmed.
2003 · 1h 31m · G
Documentary
Directed by
James Cameron
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Ghosts of the Abyss
Overview
With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James Cameron embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the wreck of the Titanic where nearly 1,500 souls lost their lives almost a century ago.
Director and cast
- James Cameron Director
- Bill Paxton as Self
- John Broadwater as Self
- James Cameron as Self
- Charles Pellegrino as Self
- Lewis Abernathy as Self
- Mike Cameron as Self
- Ken Marschall as Self / J. Bruce Ismay
- Don Lynch as Self / Thomas Andrews
- Adriana Valdez as Helen Churchill Candee
- Piper Gunnarson as Madeleine Astor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Cameron, who produced and directed it, does a visually splendid job, though what he has fashioned comes down to a logistical footnote to his great, primal, heart-of- the-ocean blockbuster.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
One of the rare Imax movies in which the 3-D effects are completely melded into the picture, rather than simply used as a gimmick.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Rotten
Aside from his CGI ghostcraft unwittingly co-opting Pat O'Neill's last feature, Cameron is entirely predictable in a marines T-shirt, exhorting, 'Next stop, Titanic -- rock 'n' roll!'
Edward Crouse, Village Voice
Fresh
Ghosts of the Abyss is an incredible experience that will further enhance our century-long fascination with the Titanic.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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