Waterworld

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Buy This Item Waterworld by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $8.49  on 9-22-2008     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 <i>Titanic</i>-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. <i>Waterworld</i> 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 <i>The Road Warrior</i>, this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> Reader Reviews My Husband and I viewed this movie when it first came out, and enjoyed it. Seeing it again proved to be just as exciting, seldom does this happen. Kevin Costner either chooses his scripts carefully,or, he has the ability to turn that which could be ridiculous into thoroughly entertaining viewing.

Waterworld Available from Amazon Price: $8.49 Updated on 9-22-2008.

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