I thought I really liked this one but I probably confused Waterworld with The Postman. This one, I still like but not very much. The first half is good when the world is built. Nice ideas although looking back at it nowadays it’s hard to believe that this one was one of the most expensive movies ever at its time. I guess it were the costs of building everything manually instead of generating it in the computer.
What marred my enjoyment, was the end. There is a dryland and it’s a South Sea paradise? Come on. It’s hard to believe that humanity adapted to the flooded Earth for a hundred years but didn’t come across dryland before. Although the way they adapted is occasionally really funny like the bandits rowing their rusted tanker.
Which brings me to my last issue. It wasn’t clear to me that this in fact is an environmentalist movie. Good Kevin using windcraft, the bandits moving on the last oil. Finally discovering a sustainable future in dryland. Not that I’m criticizing it. The movie was at least 20 years to early with Global Warming now being the name of the game.