1995 · adventure · action · sci-fi
Waterworld
Directed by Kevin Reynolds2h 15m1995
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Our read: Waterworld (1995) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive adventure · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme adventure / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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