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Waterworld [1995]
from Universal Pictures Video
starring Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino, Chaim Girafi
directed by Kevin Costner, Kevin Reynolds

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• MULLET AHOY!
  To quote Jim Carrey in Cable Guy " I don't know what all the fuss was about, I thought that movie rocked, it ruled!". He's not far wrong even if he was a head-case, sure people complained about the scientific liklihood and blah blah. Honestly, who gives a damn ? Kevin Costner fights pirates on jet-ski's in a post-apocalyptic future, it's a cinch that this isn't a Ken Loach film. As such, the stunts effects and set-pieces all are top notch. Downside is that Costner has little in the way of charisma in the... more info

• GOOD OR BAD? THAT IS THE QUESTION. SHREWSBURY NOT AS SHOWN .
  LIKE THE CURATES EGG, GOOD IN PARTS, A BIT LIKE CRAP FROM CHINA A BIT FAR FETCHED BUT DIFFERENT. NOT AS BAD AS SOME OF THE LATEST RELEASES WHICH ARE LIKE WATCHING PAINT DRY.THE YOUNG GIRL WAS EXCELLENT CONSIDERING HER AGE I THINK SHE HAS A GREAT FUTURE WHOEVER SHE IS.

• Errr
  If you think this is a good film, then you have serious issues. No joke. Get help now.

• ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZ
  I fell into a deep coma while watching this film from which I did not awake for five years. A similar thing happened while watching The Postman. (AKA, Waterworld On Dry Land)
  10 years of my life wasted! Thank you Kevin Costner!
  

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