In his search for a blue diamond once owned by Louis XVI that was believed to have gone down with the Titanic, Brock Lovett discovers an intriguing sketch of a beautiful woman wearing the diamond on her neck. After showing the drawing on a TV program, Rose Dawson, an old lady comes forward claiming to be the woman in the drawing. She is brought to the explorer's vessel to help them determine the location of the diamond, but instead she tells everyone the "real" story of Titanic's sinking. She was at the time a 17 year-old rich girl sailing to the USA to get married with Cal Hockley. The marriage was set up by her mother and was not of Rose’s wished making her feel forced into marriage as well trapped inside her own world. During the trip she tries to commit suicide and she is saved at the last moment by Jack Dawson, a third-class passenger who travels the world making pencil drawings. They get to know each other better until they fall in love. Hockley and Rose's mother try to separate them several times after discovering their relationship but to no avail. Amidst all this confusion and turmoil the Titanic hits an iceberg and starts to sink. The ship that claimed to be unsinkable appears to be heading to a watery grave as do its two young love birds who are still aboard the ship.

I have never seen a movie more trivialize a historic event than this movie did. The movie wasn't about the titanic or the sinking of the famous ship but rather it was about sensationalism to draw in a particular audience. The movie quickly degrades into absurdity dealing with two fictional characters that are nothing more than eye candy and not actually dealing with the sinking of the ship. Both Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio’s characters are nothing more than shallow and empty characters tossed into a historical event to draw in a female audience. Leonardo can act displayed in such movies like Eating Gilbert Grape which is why it is such a shame to seem him reduced to nothing more than eye candy. His character Jack is the worst of the stereotypical characters with no depth and no substance but rather just an excuse for poor writing and marketing. For a movie that tries to claim that it is historically accurate I was shocked to see that this is only a thin coat around tons of inaccuracies, like the fact that they use a modern Roosevelt dime instead of investing the $5 it would have taken to get a dime from the time period. Also the entire painting scene of Kate's character was the most sickening ploy I have ever seen in a movie. By putting it in an artistic scenario they were able to have nudity in the movie while maintaining a PG-13 rating thereby getting teenage boys to see the movie for a little skin within. While less that 5 minutes later in the movie the characters are clearly have sex in the back of a car, despicable and disgraceful. This movie spits on the history of the Titanic, it disgraces and dishonors all the people that died that die. The movie is so anticlimactic that I found myself cheering when Leo's character is in the water. The movie is a marketing genius but a sham of a movie.
0 stars out of 5