Factual error: After the ship capsized, the engines (and generators) could not have continued to run inverted due to lubrication and fuel delivery problems. Engines can not run upside down as they will fail due to lack of lubricant, since the pickups are at the bottom. Same for fuel - most fuel pickups are near the bottom of the tank so you can use the full capacity of the tank. With the ship upside down these pickups would fail. Even if battery power could run some emergency lights for a while, there would have been nothing to supply the massive energy needed to run the bow thrusters.
Poseidon (2006)
Plot summary
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Josh Lucas, Kevin Dillon, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett
It's New Year's Eve on the Poseidon. Former Mayor of New York Robert Ramsey is travelling with his daughter Jennifer and her fiancé Christian. Elena is a stowaway on the ship trying to get to New York so she can see her sick brother in the hospital. Valentine is the waiter that is helping her get there. Richard Nelson is a gay man who has recently broken up with his boyfriend. Dylan is a happy go lucky gambler and Maggie is a single mother traveling with her son Connor. Shortly after midnight the crew notice a wave in the distance and try to run but the wave hits the side of the ship, capsizing it.
More mistakes in Poseidon
Dylan Johns: Does your husband.
Maggie James: Oh, does that work much?
Dylan Johns: What?
Maggie James: The tentative mention of a husband I'm supposed to correct, even though you clocked my wedding finger twice already.
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Question: There is a scene in which Robert Ramsey drowns. Is this true that, during the filming of this scene, Kurt Russell really started to drown?
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Answer: According to him, yes: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/BOX+office%3A+Making+drowning+an+art+form%3B+Kurt+Russell+tells+Robin...-a0146253600.