My Waterworld review

My Waterworld review

Intro: I can see the budget for this movie wasn't spent on the writing. 

Waterworld: The movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where Earth is mostly covered in water. The survivors are looking for dry land. That becomes difficult when a group called the smokers is after a girl who may know the location of dry land. The girl and her guardian escape with a drifter called the Mariner, and the three of them have to find dry land before the smokers.   

This movie was a huge disappointment to Universal and me. I say that because more could have been done with the concept of the Earth mostly covered in water. Instead, we get a generic action movie. This movie makes me want to give a backhanded compliment to Titan AE; that movie was better than this movie. (That's saying a lot.) 

Heck, there are video games that handle this concept better. 

 

 

Really, this movie should have been animated if the budget was such an issue. One of the problems with this movie is that the conflict over finding dry land makes no sense. It could've made sense if the land could only hold a hundred people, or the Smokers want to secure it so that they could make money off of it. Also, more could have been done with the world-building. For example, I kind of understand why dirty is a currency, but why kill off anyone who can get you more of it? Also, how many people have died because they can't swim? Do they teach people how to swim? Where do mutants come from? 

The Mariner, the main character, is another issue I have with the movie. First of all, he doesn't have a name. Second, he's a mean-spirited loner. I get that he's suppose to be the reluctant hero, but the movie handled that archetype in one of, if not the worst possible. The director must be high if he thinks anyone will root for a character who has no problem pumping out a woman for resources and tormenting a child. ( He should get a Razzies for that alone, but I digress.) 

There isn't much to say about the rest of the characters. Enola, the girl, is spunky and an enigma. The Deacon leader of the Smokers is the comic relief. I do like seeing how humanity adapts to this environment and the look of it. How people react to seeing things from the past and the action set pieces. If the main character was tolerable and there was a reason for the race to find dry land, I wouldn't have minded this movie. 

Sadly, this movie was messy. With that said, I would recommend it to fans of this kind of film. 

Rating = Trash