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Waterworld
1995
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino |
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| Director | Kevin Reynolds |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller |
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Waterworld
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
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter, Don Harvey |
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| Director | Kevin Reynolds |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 10 mins HD DVD: 2 hrs 10 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 31 May 2002 HD DVD: 12 Nov 2007 Production year: 1995 |
| Format | DVD |
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This lavish Mad Max on jet skis from director Kevin Reynolds was declared dead in the water owing to escalating costs, nightmarish production problems and clashing egos, but it finally emerged as a spectacular and thrilling sci-fi fantasy. In the far future, the polar icecaps have melted, covering the planet in water and making dirt the most valuable commodity. Enigmatic loner Mariner (Kevin Costner) offers a ray of hope to Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and Enola (Tina Majorino), the latest victims of bandits led by the manic Deacon (Dennis Hopper). While helping Helen and Enola survive, Mariner continues his search to find the mythical Dryland. The film offers plenty of comic-book heroics and spectacular stunts, and Costner gives one of his finest performances as the half man/half amphibian whose steely character holds this full-blooded epic adventure together.
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"...A 2 1/4-hour aquatic pursuit pic with bruising stunts, fun-to-watch performances, a dozen good chortles and imposing Panavision renderings of post-apocalyptic crud....[WATERWORLD] clearly has the makings of a cult movie..." -- 3 out of 4 stars
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15 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Surprise!!
I asked for this film for my grand-daughter to watch. I really didn't think that it would be for me, but having watched it (under duress, I must say), I thoroughly enjoyed it, and can only recommend it to everybody. Go on, just try it I promise you will be pleasantly surprised.
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15 out of 20 people found this review helpful
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I asked for this film for my grand-daughter to watch. I really didn't think that it would be for me, but having watched it (under duress, I must say), I thoroughly enjoyed it, and can only recommend it to everybody. Go on, just try it I promise you will be pleasantly surprised.
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Costner's flop Waterworld left Tripplehorn scarred
- 18 Feb 2009
Playing Kevin Costner's love interest in critically-mauled action film Waterworld left Jeanne Tripplehorn so scarred she considered quitting movies for good. The Basic Instinct star admits she struggled with the way the futuristic film turned out. The 1995 film is considered one the of the most expensive flops of all time; it cost £125 million to make and only recouped £62 million at the U.S. box office. She tells More magazine, "In retrospect, I realise it made me reluctant about... Read more
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Waterworld - HD DVD Version
In a flooded future Earth, people cling to manmade floating islands for survival. When a tyrannical madman (Dennis Hopper) driving a supertanker over the world in search of 'dry land' invades one of these islands, a mysterious wanderer named the 'Mariner' (Kevin Costner) rescues a woman and her ...
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