Titanic 3D (12)

Alison Rowat's Review

It’s back, it still ends the same way, and it’s still a stonking 194 minutes long.

James Cameron’s 11 Academy Award-winning drama, starring Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio as young lovers, has been reissued in 3D to mark the centenary of the sinking of the ship they said was unsinkable.

Cameron put on a show and a half first time around, and here, using 3D, he again drives home the terror of that night. Man the lifeboats and pack the sarnies.

Paul Greenwood's Review

Marking both the centenary of the Titanic disaster and the 15th birthday of the film, this is a timely re-release for James Cameron’s iceberg epic that stood proud as the biggest box office hit of all time, at least until the arrival of his own Avatar.

It’s the film that turned Leonardo DiCaprio into a superstar, as his poor rogue romances Kate Winslet’s rich English rose on the doomed voyage to New York.

As ever with Cameron, the script is the weakest link, and the soapy antics that make up the first half of the film can border on cringeworthy. But that’s mitigated by spectacle on a level previously unseen, at least in 1997, and the hour or more it takes the boat to sink (spoiler alert) provides a showcase of visual effects and technical brilliance that demands to be watched on the big screen.

It’s still a stunning achievement, as long as you ignore the characters talking.