The movie is a misconceived, anticlimactic, wooden, phlegmatically paced and waterlogged travelogue that devotes so much time to its nautical machinery that there's none left over for even an approximation of interaction among the actors.

Raise the Titanic is almost a good movie. It has some wonderful moments, but they're bogged down in two moronic subplots.

Question: Is it possible to raise the Titanic from its watery grave? Answer: Scientifically, probably. Artistically, no.

While the premise is certainly exciting, the action in Raise the Titanic is hardly unsinkable.