Die Explosion

A movie before times. A real drama was source of inspiration. A good script and catchy acting. Too bad is a real lose to listen the voices dubbed because you lost o lot of acting. Story from movie is an opening picture for a lot of other movies involving accidents and dramas. For 1973 this was a misunderstand and undrafted movie and he foreseen what future has rezerve to humans.

A film for see for actors. political mark is obvious and the desire to propose a catastrophic film gives a decent solution but far to be an impressive one. a film about the efforts to save a Romanian city against a predictable explosion and to stop a freighter . dramatic. and real convincing if you saw it in the last decades of Communism. directed by Mircea Dragan, it is a fresco, like each film by him. impressive. for the actors, for the good intentions, maybe , a little, for script.

Talk about a misleading title! Given the sensational English title and the fact this is a European-produced early 70's disaster flick, naturally everybody assumes it's a shameless imitation of the popular Gene Hackman classic "The Poseidon Adventure". But it's not, in fact, in any way related to this movie except that the ships have the same name. This production actually has a lot more story elements in common with "The Towering Inferno", but that movie didn't get released until 1974 so you can't call it a rip-off of that one, neither. "The Poseidon Explosion" re-enacts the supposedly true events that occurred near a Romanian harbor in the year 1970. An all-ravaging inferno breaks out on board a massive cargo ship carrying thousands of bags of explosive fertilizer. Despite of the devoted labor of professional fire-fighters as well as multiple courageous volunteers, the immense fire can't be extinguished and the inevitable explosion is guaranteed to destroy the entire harbor town of Galati as well. It was quite a surprise to find this movie in the Grindhouse Collection box-set. Granted it's an exploitation feature, but primarily this is a genuine and full-blooded 70's disaster movie. Everything that could possibly go wrong on board the Poseidon does go wrong, there's a realistic diversity between heroic characters and people that just intend to save their own butt, there's barely any time for sentimental sub plots and certain people you root for die a horrible death! That's simply the way it should be in this type of films. Superficially speaking, "The Poseidon Explosion" appears to be a poorly produced movie, but that's simply because the transfer to DVD looks cheap and the English dubbing was done by a bunch of illiterate amateurs. If you look beyond these aspects that are typical for Grindhouse flicks, you'll notice an eminent Romanian film with astounding special effects (the fires are menacingly real), devoted actors (Gheorghe Dinica is superb) and convincing set-pieces. Director Mircea Dragan maintains an atmosphere of non-stop suspense and the fire-fighters face a new type of deadly ordeal in every new scene. Now, that's cinematic excitement! "The Poseidon Explosion" is probably one of the most misunderstood movies ever made.

This movie is based on real events, placed somewhere in the '60. For sure, as it was created in the communist era, the facts are 'modified', more than a bit... Actually, the cities of Braila and Galati was really affected by that explosion. I'm pretty sure that a previous comment here was made without knowing the facts; the link between this movie, and 'poseidon adventure' is not existent - even for the small reason than in communist Romania, copying a 'decadent occidental' movie was strictly prohibited. After all, this movie was one of my childhood's greatest; good acting (as the cinematographic culture was in that era; probably, if Bruce Willis was acting also, he could be saving all of them), alert plot (even for now), good-written dialogues (i don't think if dubbed in other languages, the quality will remain)

This was actually an exciting picture by Hungarian director Mircea Dragan.

Rcalling that the Oklahoma City bombing by Tim McVeigh had 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of fertilizer and nitromethane, this is a story of a beached ship with 4000 tons of fertilizer and gallons of fuel oil. The ship is on fire and if it reaches 300 digress, a whole city can be wiped out. Just Google the Texas City explosion to see what can happen in real life.

There was some good acting in this Romanian film. It has one of the greatest Romanian actors of all time in Gheorghe Dinica. The story itself will keep your interest, as it was inspired by a real event in 1970 near Galati, Romania.

And, to show that there are stupid people all over the world, there was even looters in a ship about to explode. There were some funny moments when they were throwing them off the ship.