The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The Mariner lives aboard his triple-hulled catamaran. Mariner, self-sufficient and solitary, is an outcast because he has developed functional gills and webbed feet. Looking for supplies, Mariner visits an atoll fortress where the people, frightened and half-crazed, imprison him in a cage and intend to execute him.
17 August 1951, Montréal, Québec, Canada
21 January 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 July 1942, Pontotoc, Mississippi, USA
5 August 1934, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa [now South Africa]
1966, Lynwood, California, USA
19 May 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
14 October 1952, New York City, New York, USA
20 September 1962, Columbus, Ohio, USA
7 February 1985, Westlake, California, USA
14 December 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 September 1914
20 December 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 January 1953, USA
7 May 1951
18 July 1962, Palo Alto, California, USA
18 January 1955, Lynwood, California, USA
17 May 1936, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
21 February 1958, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
14 October 1948, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
1 September 1944, Buenos Aires, Argentina
28 August 1969, Hermosa Beach, California, USA
20 September 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
November 16, 2014
It's borderline halfway decent. For the first 25 minutes or so, it's even actually good, in its derivative way.
January 01, 2000
If the story seems a little waterlogged, it's still big, loud, and fun to watch.
January 01, 2000
Has the makings of a cult movie.
June 18, 2002
It's a genuine vault at greatness that misses the mark -- but survives.
January 01, 2000
It's one of those marginal pictures you're not unhappy to have seen, but can't quite recommend.
July 12, 2009
actually pretty good
November 06, 2008
Waterworld drowned in bad buzz during its theatrical release. It deserves a better fate.
October 22, 2009
While it is true that time, and the obsessive culture of the Internet, has lessened Waterworld's "Fishtar" reputation to some extent, this is still one massively flawed film.
October 30, 2009
Regardless of faults, I embrace Waterworld as the pure matinee escapism it was intended to be, readily devouring the sci-fi excitement both Reynolds and Costner are happy to dish up.
July 23, 2007
I had no idea what the characters were thinking half the time, but I had an excellent idea what they were feeling, physically.
February 13, 2001
A moderately successful guy's movie with both weak and strong elements where lots of things are brilliantly blown up and few things make any kind of sense.
January 01, 2000
Waterworld isn't Fishtar, but Kevin Costner's pricey, post-apocalyptic sloshbuckler isn't a seafaring classic either.
