It's too bad WATERWORLD was doomed from the start but it remains a fun movie.Musk is being sued for defamation by Vernon Unsworth, who helped in the dramatic rescue of 12 boys trapped in an underwater cave in Thailand last year Everyone seemed to forget that the people leaving the theater actually liked the movie. I remember watching this when it was originally released and everyone was going crazy about the budget. Majorino is also fun as the young girl who befriends Costner. Hopper delivers that crazy type of performance we all love and Tripplehorn is good in her supporting bit. Costner also turns in a good, not great, performance in the lead and he at least keeps you interested in everything going on. The battles at sea were really just things we had previously seen in pirate movies but they were still fun. The action scenes were also extremely well handled and especially the ending with all the explosions and fires. The futuristic atmosphere also worked and the look of the costumes, ships and supplies were all realistic and fun. I thought the director managed to do a good job creating a world where the viewer really did feel was nothing but water. I think a lot of credit has to go to the actual look of the film, which of course turned out to be some of the biggest issues with the production. WATERWORLD runs on a bit too long, loses focus on any type of story and yes the budget was crazy but in the end it's still a pretty entertaining summer blockbuster. A part-man, part-fish (Kevin Costner) gets involved with a family (Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino) and soon must defeat some bad guys (led by Dennis Hopper) who has kidnapped the girl. The story is pretty simple as in the future all the world is covered by water, although there's rumors of land somewhere. There are countless problems with this film but for the most part I've always enjoyed its ambition and it keeps me entertained. I've personally never seen how good or poorly a movie does at the box office should have any impact on its entertainment or quality level. Waterworld (1995) *** (out of 4) Talk all you want about how this thing was a bomb at the box office. This Ulysses Cut was remastered in high-definition though, created with original footage rather than lower-quality broadcast material. In an unexpected turn, the original distributor officially sanctioned this fan-edit by releasing it in a box-set with the other two versions. It was compiled from several broadcast versions, containing all of the additional footage from the TV version while restoring the previously censored parts. A fan-edit of the film, called 'Waterworld: The Ulysses Cut' (named after a restored scene at the end), was later made in an attempt to create the most complete version of the movie. Being a TV special, this version was also censored for violence and language. The additional scenes also tie up several loose ends in the theatrical release. ABC later broadcast an extended TV version that restored almost 40 minutes of deleted scenes, which explain more about the world, the people who live there, the Smokers' religious beliefs and their ability to refine crude oil. The preferred 3-hour cut of director Kevin Reynolds was drastically edited back to a 135-minute theatrical version by Kevin Costner and the studio, probably in an effort to recoup the film's inflated $175 million dollar budget (since Costner's previous 3-hour movie Wyatt Earp (1994) had been a box office bomb).
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