Waterworld (1995)
Front Cover Actor
Kevin Costner
Tina Majorino
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Movie Details
Director Kevin Costner
Language English
Audience Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
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
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 55
In Collection Yes
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
UPC 025192003929
Release Date 12/10/1997
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Anamorphic Closed-captioned Color Widescreen NTSC