Steineded
How sad is this?
Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
ryanliffen
If you're looking for something to satisfy that Mad Max tooth, this will definitely be the film you're looking for. Although it hasn't aged well making it not as graphically pristine as up to date cgi, the film carries loads of practical effects proving it's intricate worth. Sometimes it feels a bit empty but what can we expect from a world that has been covered up by water leaving sparseness. Everything is brilliant in this film from set design to the acting. The makeup is a little shoddy and the sound is very average with a backup for an ordinary adventure soundtrack but overall it is worth the watch!
Fluke_Skywalker
Plot; In the distant future, the polar ice caps have melted, leaving continents buried under water and mankind scrambling to survive on a seemingly endless sea.Waterworld is a rather notorious movie for a number of reasons; Dubious science, massive cost overruns and the squabbling between star Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds (friends who'd teamed up for the massive hit Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves four years earlier) during production. It did go on to gross over $250 million worldwide (the equivalent of $425 million today), but it still wasn't enough to offset the cost of production and distribution (though it later turned a profit thanks to home video sales). Critics destroyed it, with reviews always containing references to its troubled production. But is Waterworld the turkey its reputation claims it is? To my surprise, no. I'd seen it a few times before, but not in well over a decade, so I went in with low expectations but otherwise unsullied by any specific prejudices.Waterworld is essentially--actually rather unabashedly--a Mad Max rip-off. Replace gasoline with land and the dry desert setting with water and they're virtually indistinguishable. Strictly from a production values perspective, Waterworld is quite impressive. The sets and the menagerie of vehicles are neat, and the film itself looks great. Toss in some very impressive stunt work and the movie works pretty well on a strictly popcorn level. That's good, because I never really found the characters or their search all that compelling. Costner's quiet Mariner is an abusive jerk for much of the film, and the villainous Smokers (Named so because their vehicles belch smoke or because they literally smoke themselves, I don't know) are cartoonish to the point of removing any real threat. But thankfully the movie doesn't rest on the shoulders of its characters so much as it does the action and post-apocalyptic eye candy, and the latter is enough to keep Waterworld afloat.
adonis98-743-186503
Waterworld is just like Last Action Hero a really good movie with good performances that was very ahead of it's time and people hated it that's like saying that Mad Max was a bad movie because it was ahead of it's time or Terminator or Alien or anything else post-apocalyptic movie or movies with fiction in it. There is a lot of action, laughs but also nice cinematography now the only problem i had with the movie it was sometimes it was a bit silly like Dennis Hopper's character says some lines that totally are made for villains of this kind and the cgi is not good you can also spot the green screen in some scenes threw out the movie but the film has a lot of action, good performances but also it's a funny movie and i'm going to give Waterworld a A- 9/10.
Wuchak
Released in 1996, "Waterworld" chronicles events 500 years in the future after the polar icecaps have melted where people live in ramshackle floating communities called atolls. Kevin Costner stars as the Mariner, a loner who travels the 'waterworld' in his makeshift multi-hulled watercraft; that is, a huge trimaran. After visiting an atoll, the 'village' is attacked by a gang of 'Smokers,' led by Deacon (Dennis Hopper). The Mariner escapes with a woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and a smartaxx little girl with a curious tattoo on her back (Tina Majorino). Can they escape Deacon's wrath and find the mythical 'Dryland'? R.D. Call and Gerard Murphy are on hand as Enforcer and Nord respectively.My title blurb is the best succinct description: "Waterworld" is basically Mad Max on the high seas, but with Costner as the protagonist rather than Mel Gibson. If you like the comic booky tone of the original Mad Max trilogy you'll like "Waterworld." If not, you probably won't. I was never a big fan of the nigh-goofy style of those apocalyptic movies, which explains my initial lukewarm feelings about "Waterworld." But if you can adapt to the tone there's a lot to appreciate: There are a lot of interesting props, including miscellaneous sailing and flying machines and medieval-like futuristic arms. A little past the hour mark, though, I was starting to get bored by the one-dimensional setting & happenings but, thankfully, the story segued into a couple of nigh fascinating interludes accompanied by an awesome score. As for the cast and their characters, Costner is stalwart as the laconic drifter with aberrant mutations, but is otherwise uninteresting. Tripplehorn looks great, but the movie fails to show off her beauty, like Beth Rogan in 1961's outstanding "Mysterious Island." To be honest with you, by the end of the movie I didn't care much about the main characters. As for Hopper, he's entertaining as always, but his comical approach diminishes any seriousness and realism. The movie is basically a live-action cartoon. It is common infamy that "Waterworld" was the most expensive movie ever made up to that time. It had a whopping budget of $100 million, but ended up costing almost twice that (not including marketing). It cost so much because it was hampered by a series of cost overruns and production setbacks, including the collapse of the multimillion-dollar set during a hurricane. As such, additional filming was required off the coast of Southern California. Further complications include Costner almost dying when he got caught in a squall while tied to the mast of his trimaran. Not to mention an epic soap opera disaster highlighted by the end of Costner's long-time marriage because of an affair on the set. Costner at the time was the superstar Golden Boy of Hollywood, an all-American hero who could do no wrong. "Waterworld" put an end to that. Notoriously referred to as "Kevin's Gate" and "Fishtar," "Waterworld" was actually the #1 movie at the box office when released and even broke even, eventually making a profit years later via video sales. The film runs 135 minutes and was shot almost entirely in a large artificial seawater enclosure located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii similar to that used in the film "Titanic" two years later; the ending was shot in Waipio Valley on the Big Island of Hawaii.GRADE: B- (6.5/10 Stars)
