Let's be honest: this 1995 epic isn't nearly as bad as its negative publicity led us to expect. At the time, Waterworld was the most expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a Titanic-sized 200 million US dollars budget), and the film arrived in cinemas 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 [show more]
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Kevin Costner's soggy sci-fi adventure is set on a future Earth covered with water. Humans have to survive on makeshift floating cities, although some of them are determined to find their planet's equivalent of an oasis: 'Dryland'. Only the young Enola knows the secrets of this mythical place, and she becomes a pawn in the power struggle between the Mariner (Kevin Costner) and his evil nemesis Deacon (Dennis Hopper).
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