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Waterworld

1995

Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino ...

4.8

81,774

Sci-Fi. Adventure. Action In a flooded future Earth, people cling to manmade floating islands for survival. When a tyrannical madman (Dennis Hopper) driving a supertanker over the world in search of "dry land" invades one of these islands, a mysterious wanderer named the "Mariner" (Kevin Costner) rescues a woman and her adopted daughter from the slaughter and together.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A decent futuristic action picture with some great sets, some intriguing ideas, and a few images that will stay with me (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jeff Dawson Empire	"By no means the disaster it was hyped to be at the time - this is a surprisingly impressive sci-fi adventure (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A big, brawny, overzealously bizarre epic punctuated by daring action scenes, which are sloppily assembled but still exciting."	NEU
United States	Desson Howe The Washington Post	"If the story seems a little waterlogged, it's still big, loud, and fun to watch."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"Has the makings of a cult movie."	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"Waterworld is a pretty damn good summer movie. There, I've said it...it's a breezy, clever entertainment with stirring effects."	POS

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