The distrustful Atollers are about to do away with Costner when suddenly they find themselves under attack by Dennis Hopper’s pirates. The Mariner lands in trouble right off the bat when he says he wants nothing Atoll to do with marrying an islander woman. The great flood has forced people to construct makeshift floating cities, “atolls” that are threatened by rampaging pirate bands called the Smokers. Purified water is almost as scarce: This situation requires Costner’s Mariner, in an early scene that serves notice of the film’s earthy coarseness, to recycle bodily wastes just for the sake of taking a drink.
Plain dirt is a cherished commodity in a world where the only horizon is an unending wetness. In saner times, he would have spent his life sailing the seven seas, but, in this future era, global warming has melted the polar caps and formed one sea that covers the planet. Kevin Costner, who not only stars but also takes responsibility for the final edit, plays a surly loner called the Mariner. That spectacular investment is MCA Corp./Universal Pictures’ money, which it can spend any extravagant way it chooses, and the price of admission is not affected.ĭoubtless most early customers will line up to see why all the fuss those who like this type of movie probably won’t find anything to complain about.
Whether it cost $175 million, $200 million or whatever, to make - depending on which “leaked” figure one believes - is not the moviegoers’ problem. Owing as much to the generations-gone-by comic book adventures of “The Sub-Mariner” and “Aquaman” as to Hollywood’s swashbuckler tradition, “Waterworld” proves to be an honorably thrilling genre piece. Its briskly assured storytelling and convincing hero-and-villain portrayals betray none of the anxieties and hostilities that are supposed to have dogged its production as the most expensive movie of all time. ‘Waterworld” is a jim-dandy fun movie that looks about as expensive as it ought to.
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