You'll end up entertained if you forgive the cliches and let Petersen grab you with the visuals.

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Among the willing cast, only Jacinda Barrett and topliners Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss manage, just barely, to suggest a third dimension to the script's cursory character sketches. But that won't matter to audiences craving a disaster thrill ride.

Sheri Linden

The Hollywood Reporter

Thanks to its simple construction, Wolfgang Petersen's large-scale liner moves reasonably well, though anyone with the faintest memory of its 1972 predecessor will wonder where most of the plot went.

Brian Lowry

Variety