RT Score: 88%. "A mostly unqualified triumph for James Cameron, who offers a dizzying blend of spectacular visuals and old-fashioned melodrama." After crafting some of the best movies from the sci-fi and action genres - the first two Terminator films, Aliens and The Abyss - James Cameron's dedicated legion of nerdy fanboys were gutted when he announced that he would be making a blockbuster disaster movie about the sinking of the Titanic...and it would be more a romance than a visceral action flick. Though the sinking sequence is thrilling, it's around an hour before the iceberg even hits, and it's easy to see how those used to watching Cameron's stellar action sequences might've gotten fed up with the Jack-Rose relationship drama by that point. It's fashionable to rip on the film despite its enormous success, which only accentuates the fanboy notion that it was not a worthy film for the director to be making.