Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Paul Magne Haakonsen If you compare this four hour TV mini-series to the twelve hour "Titanic: Blood and Steel" series, which also came out in 2012, then this shorter series is more enjoyable. And even with a much smaller budget, they accomplished a much more captivating and entertaining series. And one that is not actually a drag to sit through.The 2012 "Titanic" series focus on the ship and the stories of the passengers, which is what the audience wants to see. Unlike the twelve hours series of political drama and shipyard problems.The acting in this series was good and they had some good talents on the cast list.I will say that the practical effects and special effects team managed to pull off the effects quite amazingly. And the visuals do play a big part in a drama about the Titanic.The costume and props department also did their job quite well, fleshing out the atmosphere nicely.If you have an interest in the Titanic then you should take the time to sit down and watch this 2012 TV mini-series, because it is actually quite entertaining and good.

deanosuburbia When I first watched this when it was broadcast in 2012 I was left wanting. I found the way the episodes concentrated on different characters perspectives made me not care about them. The sinking scenes were rushed and I couldn't help but want to watch James Cameron's version and A Night To Remember or even the Catherine Zeta- Jones version. I decided last night to watch the whole series again and I enjoyed it so much more. The episode format grew on me although I was sad that some of the characters played little or no part in the middle episodes. I found the production values to be quite good considering the budget constraints they had. The lighting was too dark in places which made it difficult to see what was going on at times. This might have been to make the viewer feel like they were in the action but for me this didn't work. I found the survival of some of the characters hard to believe especially the Earl of Manton. Overall though this was a watchable account of the sinking of the Titanic, I would imagine that if they had a bigger budget they could have done that much more with the sinking scenes. My favourite Titanic adaptations are as follows, 1st - James Cameron's 1997 epic, 2nd - 1958 British effort A Night To Remember, 3rd - 1996 Catherine Zeta-Jones mini-series, 4th - This ITV version, 5th - S.O.S. Titanic, 6th - 1953 version.

Sara Buller I've read several reviews of Julian Fellowes' Titanic, and I agree with comments about the choppy, confusing editing (I'm sure there was a point to it, but I kept thinking I had started with the wrong episode, or in the middel of one...) I also agree with those that found the cast to be lacking in chemistry or real emotion. But what bothered me most about this version was that there was absolutely no sense of the arctic, icy cold. Nobody breathed vapor. Nobody froze to death -- EVRYBODY that went into the water drowned? Really? That sounds like (yet another) glaring historical inaccuracy. There was no mention of the cold throughout the "sinking scenes" except for one character mentioned she'd rather freeze than deal with "those people." There was no ice anywhere except the CGI iceberg. This version could have been set in a lukewarm summer lake, for all the impression of cold it produced. (And okay, maybe James Cameron put a little TOO much emphasis on clouds of vapor and frozen hair, but at least you FELT how cold it was!) If the point of this version was to make us feel the total experience of this tragedy, it missed by an artic ocean. Pun intended.

TheLittleSongbird I wanted to like this mini-series, really I did. I love Downton Abbey and Gosford Park is great fun, so it isn't as if I am not a fan of Julian Fellowes. And this had a great cast on paper. Unfortunately, apart from some beautiful photography, gorgeous costumes and a wonderfully-rendered ship as well as some decent turns from Glen Blackhall and Geraldine Somerville, this soggy ITV drama sadly never seems to leave the deck. A main problem of mine was the pace. Most of the drama had a very rushed feel to it, consequently characters came and went, story lines(and rather derivative ones at that) were introduced but never satisfactorily elaborated upon or resolved(especially Mary Maloney's) and the main characters lack depth or even any sort of genuine personality and it doesn't help that here they are all underdeveloped stereotypes.Some scenes particularly at the start take a while to get going, maybe in an attempt to give the characters depth but seeing as they failed with that aspect the first episode was dull, and the sinking scenes which had potential to be riveting lacked any true tension. The dialogue lacks the control and wit also of Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, it is all very stilted and soap-opera-ish with some parts like with the younger actors cringe-worthy and there are a couple of heavy accents too making some of the dialogue muddled. The rest of the acting considering the cast pedigree was disappointing, and the fact that a lot don't have much to do has a lot to do with it.Toby Jones for example is a good actor, but is one of these, and for me he also had a character that was all too derivative of some of his other roles(such as a less-evil version of Quilp from The Old Curiosity Shop). The rest of the cast that aren't the main focus of the drama are so little used and so scatter-shot in their appearances that their acting is downright forgettable. All in all, a big soggy and largely unmoving disappointment, better than the animated versions, which are the "what-the-devil-did-I-just-watch?" sort of quality, but for a better version try the sumptuous James Cameron version which had an absolutely riveting last hour and especially the brilliant A Night to Remember. 4/10 Bethany Cox