I must disagree with the previous reviewer. It wasn't just the critics that panned this turkey. Audiences voted thumbs down with their feet. Here are a few reasons why:
The basic premise is ridiculous. As any fifth-grader with half a brain can tell you, if the ice caps and all the glaciers melted the sea level rise would be less than 200 feet -- not thousands of feet.
After hundreds of years of the planet being submerged, where did the bad guys get their endless supply of filter tip cigarettes?
What charged up the ancient car battery that ran the impossible gadgets on Costner's catamaran?
A 1000-foot-long, million-ton supertanker propelled by oars. Really?
Where did the 1000 people on board that supertanker get their food and fresh water?
Magazines like the National Geographic survive submergence in salt water for hundreds of years. Yeah right.
Where did the hydrogen come from to inflate the balloon that's propelled by what looks like a house fan?
A spring-loaded harpoon gun with the range of a fifth of a mile.
These gaffs and many more like them make suspension of disbelief laughably impossible. But what strikes me funniest of all is the ending which strongly implied the delusional producers were expecting to make a sequel.
The basic premise is ridiculous. As any fifth-grader with half a brain can tell you, if the ice caps and all the glaciers melted the sea level rise would be less than 200 feet -- not thousands of feet.
After hundreds of years of the planet being submerged, where did the bad guys get their endless supply of filter tip cigarettes?
What charged up the ancient car battery that ran the impossible gadgets on Costner's catamaran?
A 1000-foot-long, million-ton supertanker propelled by oars. Really?
Where did the 1000 people on board that supertanker get their food and fresh water?
Magazines like the National Geographic survive submergence in salt water for hundreds of years. Yeah right.
Where did the hydrogen come from to inflate the balloon that's propelled by what looks like a house fan?
A spring-loaded harpoon gun with the range of a fifth of a mile.
These gaffs and many more like them make suspension of disbelief laughably impossible. But what strikes me funniest of all is the ending which strongly implied the delusional producers were expecting to make a sequel.
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Jul 28, 1995 So here it is at last, 'Waterworld,' two years and $200 million in the making. In the old days in Hollywood, they used to brag about how much a movie cost. Now they apologize. There's been so much publicity about this movie's budget that a review of the story seems beside the point; I should just print the spreadsheets.