Amazon.com video review:
Let's be honest: this 1995 epic isn't nearly as bad as its
negative publicity led us to expect. At the time it was the most
expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a
Titanic-sized $200 million budget), and the film arrived in
theaters with so much controversy and negative gossip that it was an
easy target for ridicule. The movie itself, a flawed but enjoyable
post-apocalypse thriller, deserves better. Waterworld stars
Kevin Costner as the Mariner, a lone maverick with gills and webbed
feet who navigates the endless seas of Earth after the complete
melting of the polar ice caps. The Mariner has been caged like a
criminal when he's freed by Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and enlisted to
help her and a young girl (Tina Majorino) escape from the Smokers, a
group of renegade terrorists led by Dennis Hopper in yet another
memorably villainous role. It is too bad the predictable script isn't
more intelligent, but as a companion piece to The Road Warrior,
this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. --Jeff
Shannon
Amazon.com video review:
Let's be honest: this 1995 epic isn't nearly as bad as its
negative publicity led us to expect. At the time it was the most
expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a
Titanic-sized $200 million budget), and the film arrived in
theaters with so much controversy and negative gossip that it was an
easy target for ridicule. The movie itself, a flawed but enjoyable
post-apocalypse thriller, deserves better. Waterworld stars
Kevin Costner as the Mariner, a lone maverick with gills and webbed
feet who navigates the endless seas of Earth after the complete
melting of the polar ice caps. The Mariner has been caged like a
criminal when he's freed by Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and enlisted to
help her and a young girl (Tina Majorino) escape from the Smokers, a
group of renegade terrorists led by Dennis Hopper in yet another
memorably villainous role. It is too bad the predictable script isn't
more intelligent, but as a companion piece to The Road Warrior,
this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. --Jeff
Shannon
