Waterworld (1995) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

USA 1995
Director: Kevin Reynolds & Kevin Costner
Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: 28 July 1995
Running Time: 2 hours 57 minutes

The Movie Review

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When this movie was first seen on Cinema or on TV, me and my friends considered this only as mere entertainment with highly imaginative idea. But after the Tsunami of 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake, and the new growing concern over Global Warming and also the sad facts that my home city of Jakarta is now facing the danger of being submerged, Waterworld doesn't look that 'imaginative' anymore.

The Polar ice cap has melted and now all the world is submerged in water. Meet Mariner (Kevin Costner), a loner and a drifter who's wandering through all the lonely waters for so long until he's coming to an atoll, a place where medium-sized community of survivors are trying to live a normal life. Coming to this particular Atoll, all eyes are on Mariner for he's bringing something so precious and so rare, pure dirt.

However when he refused to impregnate a girl of the atoll as he about to continue his journey, he's subdued and imprisoned, because the elders of the atoll fearing that he just might be the spy for the killer kind, the Smokers. Fortunately, an attractive woman, Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn of Basic Instinct (1992)) is taking a liking on him and deciding to flee with him because she's also fearing her controversially mysterious daughter, Enola (Tina Majorino of Napoleon Dynamite (2004)), would also be turned adrift. This due to the rumor that the child is carrying an enormous secret that was tattoed on her back, the map to the mythical dryland, thus invoking the danger of the incoming soldiers of the Smokers.

And it turns out to be true, the Smokers come, led by an eccentric looking leader, Deacon (Dennis Hopper). But as Mariner, Helen and Enola are trying to escape the atoll from the dreadful incoming of Smokers, he starts a long fued with Deacon. But the most important thing at hands is, is Dryland a really true location? Will they ever find it? What will happen to this unlikely group of drifters in the world full of water?

Waterworld is a unique motion picture! And this set of uniquenesses that will make you keep on intrigued and excited to see it until the end scene. For starter, talking about the production aspect, Waterworld is a very very (and I mean very) expensive movie. Just how expensive? Waterworld sits on rank # 6 on the list of the most expensive movie ever produced ($ 175,000,000) according to wikipedia. And speaking of the characterization, the charater of Mariner played by Kevin Costner, is actually something that would make the audience scracthing their heads. He is a total jerk, a big d*ckhead who treats women like some kind of trash. Life is harsh in Waterworld, but this guy doesn't hesitate not only to talk and do something rough, selfish, and stingy but also trade a woman with two pieces of paper! I don't think he's even qualified to be labeled as an antihero, but this is interesting because his character is not the same-o Hollywood stereotype of a male protagonist. Besides since there is also some sort of comedies being slipped in, we as audience could still tolerate him at the level of only shaking our heads in funny disbelief instead of blatantly hating him.

And the most interesting uniqueness in no other than the Waterworld itself, how the filmmakers portray what a world drowned in water would look like. And I'm so glad that they spent so big of a budget to create this post-apocalyptic film. The people, their behavior, their culture and their technology is very unique. I kept wondering what are the things that I would see in this movie. And 2 hours 57 minutes is definitely not a short time. I don't remember seeing Waterworld this long on cinema, this is due to the extended edition of the DVD. If you already saw this movie in its incomplete version, this 177 minutes would tell you a lot more about the movie.

Truly, this movie could still be improved more, but the premise, the idea, the valuable sight of the waterworld and the adventure really justify this to be worth seeing! And for the fans of doomsday movies, Waterworld is definitly worth-buying!

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