The movie is entertaining, but the book is better. Filmed before the actual wreck was found, the assumption is that the depth and cold would preserve the Titanic and there would be little bacterial degradation. Never mind that the approach used to raise the Titanic defies science, the biggest faults I find are the obvious things. Dropping something to sink down more than two miles is not likely to drop next to the target. Things called currents exist. And the time to go down to the wreck and ascend are not measured in just a handful of minutes. But then it is merely a movie, not a scientific documentary. From that standpoint, it is neither a great movie nor a dud. And the movie is quite well done. To describe how they pictured the Titanic after decades on the bottom of the ocean, think muddy with barnacles. Byzanium only less powerful than Unobtainium.
Review of Raise the Titanic
