Who knows? He does have to contend with future racism that’s evolved beyond the colour of your skin to the shape of your toes, and the “smokers” – jet-ski fuelled petrolheads who’ll stop at nothing to destroy everyone else’s ships. Maybe Costner was channelling some of that in real life when he fell out with director Kevin Reynolds or when he ensconced himself in a private villa with his own butler, leaving the rest of the cast and crew to battle it out in condos that reached temperatures of 50☌. He seems hell bent on being the biggest asshole possible, before finding those pesky emotions towards the end and actually becoming likeable. Could this be the reason why, at the start, our hero seems just as much of a villain as the villain himself? None of that can save Waterworld from the something that’s missingĬostner’s Mariner spends most of his time committing such heroic actions as pimping out women in return for pieces of newspaper, or throwing young girls overboard because they steal his Crayola crayons. Whether it's battling with other lone sailors who steal all the fruit off your one shrivelled tree the minute you go diving, or the crazy villagers who’ve gone a bit mad from living on a floating commune and will kill you if you refuse to impregnate their daughter to save them from interbreeding, surviving ain’t easy. However, humanity doesn’t really seem to have learned much in the meantime. Although the reason for this is barely touched on, there is a sense that it is because of humanity’s gross incompetence and negligence, that people now find themselves surviving on floating villages and solitary ships in the middle of a vast never-ending sea because of their ancestors’ irresponsibility. Watching it again in 2020, the concept seems pretty ahead of its time – the polar ice-caps have melted and the sea has risen, drowning cities and nations worldwide. Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehornīack in the heady nineties, $175 million was funnelled into this post-apocalyptic action drama.
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