There are massive sailboats and floating barges filling the screen, followed at every turn by a chaotic action and enormous explosions. The movie offers only the basics in terms of characters, but it is truly a spectacle. Whatever one might say of the final product, every dollar spent is visible onscreen. It is revealed they want that drawing on the girl, and will take it at any cost. Soon, the location is attacked by Smokers, a group of violent pirates led by the Deacon (Dennis Hopper).
While visiting a floating atoll, he meets shopkeeper Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and a girl (Tina Majorino) believed to have a map to the fabled “Dryland” tattooed on her. A mutant man with fish gills and webbed feet called the Mariner (Kevin Costner) sails the endless seas on an impressively large ship.
Due to the negligent actions of humanity, the polar ice caps have melted, leaving the planet submerged. Set in the future, the world has been turned into a strange and unique post-apocalyptic landscape. Arrow Video have gone above and beyond to present an incredible package that will greatly impress fans and provide some insight into how things got… well… so expensive. Reaction to the finished feature was lukewarm at best, but over the years the movie has generated a following and plenty of defenders. Filming on water and the epic scope of the project inflated the price tag to $175 million dollars, an unheard of figure at the time. This “Limited Edition” Blu-ray release from Arrow Video will be available for purchase (– on January 22nd.īack in 1995 there was a lot of press about the sci-fi action/adventure flick Waterworld, which had become the most expensive film ever made.