Waterworld

I'm trying to understand why,when you collect some great characterisations, played by a pretty good cast (Dennis Hooper outstanding, Kim Coates as the drifter was sublime), exceptional visual effects, comic, dramatic and thrilling scenes, anyone couldn't give this movie at least 2 stars for effort. I think its excellent movie albeit no more than enjoyable eye-candy. So lets not get hung up that its ecological moralising gets lost along the way. There are plenty of other movies that can do that for us. Sit back with the usual movie accompaniments and enjoy a great spectacle.

The word 'turkey' aptly describes this stinker of a movie. It sets it's stall out as a semi-serious film with pretensions of drama, when it is in fact reduced at times to jokey nonsense, with Dennis Hopper's over-the-top performance as the baddy causing much of the pain I felt whilst I watched this film.

Kevin Costner tries to bring a quiet, calm, 'thinking-mans' performance to the film, but the quiet bits drag on (such as after the escape from the Atoll), and the attitude of Costner towards his guests veers wildly from 'I hate all people, it's all about me' one minute, to 'I love you all, you're my friends' the next! It reminds me of Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, where he hates his neighbours passionately one minute, yet five minutes later loves them. Bizarre!

The film is disjointed.. it is quiet one minute, loud and noisy the next, serious.. then jokey. The direction was sloppy, as was the editing. The musical score was amateurish at best and the overall production was a mess. Where did the $150+ million go? On the set of the Atoll I presume.. but this set looks awful and was used for not much of the film. The studio executives who read the script and allowed this money to be set aside for the film must have been mad.

Overall, it wasn't even worth a watch just to say that you've at least seen it. Truly awful.

What a hell of a shame the critics blasted this film out of the water. No pun intended. Imagine Mad Max, crossed with a Western...filmed in the sea!! Sounds crap doesn't it!! ...No wonder it flopped. But its not crap...its bloody good!! Well worth a watch.

What the hell WAS that !?

A post-apocalyptic 'interesting' action film .... or BABYSITTING?

The frigging film seemed to revolve around the little girl being taken care of - 'oh, save my baby and teach her to swim!'

Absolutely DISGRACEFUL.

i found this film a little boring but i still enjoyed it.

dont think i would watch this film again -- think the only thing that i enjoyed was the cast