These reviews are from you, the fans that have taken the time to send me an e-mail about their opinion of the film.  Good or bad, I will take them.  If you would like to post a review than feel free to send my an e-mail.

What a way to start off the new year.  Thanks goes to Mike Heuler.  (Added 1-19-2003)

• At the time of its release, 'Raise The Titanic' actually got my interest with the topic of whether the ship could be raised from the bottom.  I remember reading several articles on this theory and the end result was yes it could possibly be raised with current technology.  Not until we found out years later that the great liner broke in two and obviously killed that notion and the credibility of the movie.  But I still found the center plot very exciting. I thought the movie was decent enough to give it a 3 star (out of five) rating.  The ending turned slightly patriotic but now after 911 it seemed somewhat appropriate.  The movie plainly grabbed your imagination as to raising such a huge vessel-especially one so historically famous.
   

For the first time in quite awhile, I finally received my second review of the film.  Below, this review is excerpted from his email that he had sent to me about a few weeks ago.  (Added 12-15-2002)

• Hi,
   My name is Lee and I have been a fan of 'Raise The Titanic', the book, the film, and the fabulous score by John Barry for about three years. The excellent novel by Cussler is one of my all time favorite books, and the movie despite being flawed, has it's moments. I noticed that on your fab site there seems to be a lot of negativity regarding the movie, and I felt it needed a bit of defending. don't get me wrong, it certainly isn't a masterpiece on the level of the novel, but as a fan of anything to do with Titanic, I find the movie offers an acceptable depiction of what I have long considered a dream of mine, that is to see the great ship rising from her watery grave. Obviously, we all know now that due to the structural damage that she now bears, the prospect of bringing her up is both far fetched and impossible, which is one of the reasons why the movie, despite all it's inaccuracies, in terms of both factual errors and it's lack of success at translating 100% successfully Cussler's vision, still holds a special place in my heart. The performances are solid, even if the script isn't and John Barry's epic score provides the necessary sweep, and scope that a film of this subject needs. And although the film runs a little longer than many people's patience level will allow, it rewards us in it's later scenes of the mighty Titanic finally seeing daylight once again. The special effects are very impressive considering when it was made, and one can only hope that Cussler's novel is once again turned into a cinematic event worthy of it's title.

I got an e-mail from a woman who has asked to remain anonymous.  She is my first movie reviewer.  I excerpted part of her e-mail that contained the review. 

• I loved the book.  You cannot take a wonderful story and re-write it into much more than that. In this case they made a hash of it. Names have been changed, the plot line severely altered, and there was little if any research done on Titanic itself. The model looks more like the Aquitania than Titanic! I give it a whopping 1.5 stars. If you want to watch a good action-packed story you could do worse... You could do much better too.