(In this movie, whenever a crisis comes up, an even bigger one comes along to interrupt it.) Just as the gill-phobic Atollers capture him and lock him in a cage, Hopper and his Smokers invade the place. His sailing craft, a trimaran, is a world of its own, with countless, diverse collectibles, water-purifying gizmos and complicated pulley systems.Ĭostner sails into a floating city to trade his small jar of dirt (a precious commodity) for drinking water and other needs. The most striking character of all is the Mariner (Costner), an extraordinarily resourceful human/sea creature with webbed feet and gills behind his ears who traverses the waters. There are Drifters, the seabound equivalent of wandering varmints Atollers, who live in man-made, floating cities and Smokers (led by Hopper), a collection of muscular, evil pirates who ride jet skis, plunder and (worst of all) puff cigarettes. The inhabitants of what used to be Earth live an aquatic "Road Warrior" existence. Way, way in the future, everything's underwater. And if the story (by Peter Rader and David Twohy) seems a little waterlogged, it's still big, loud, and fun to watch. This $150-million (and counting) production, starring Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper and precocious Tina Majorino, has been budgeted chiefly for spectacle. During filming, Costner's marriage went under, production costs soared, bad weather in Hawaii destroyed expensive sets and delayed filming, and Costner made director Kevin Reynolds walk the gangplank before the cameras wrapped.īut now that "Waterworld" is in, what's the real verdict? If you're looking for some harmonic combination of art and entertainment (something along the lines of Stanley Kubrick's "2001"), you're treading water in the wrong sea park.
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"Waterworld," Kevin Costner's ocean epic, the most expensive movie ever made and, probably, the most flooded with problems. As they say about the Beaujolais: It has arrived.
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