Waterworld: Critic Reviews

61%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

43%

Rotten Tomatoes: 53 reviews

Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Victoria Alexander FilmsInReview.com

0

Fame swelled Costner's head.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

40

Full Review » 9 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

50

Nearly $200 million down the drain, and you get this astonishingly mediocre action wannabe-epic.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Nicolas Lacroix EnPrimeur.ca

40

Full Review » 9 years ago
Eric Lurio Greenwich Village Gazette

40

It's not that BAD!!!!
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rumsey Taylor Not Coming to a Theater Near You

60

Full Review » 10 years ago
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

20

Lives down to its legend.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Widgett Walls Needcoffee.com

60

It's 'Max Max on Water.' Straight up. Once you get over that, it's not unenjoyable.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Ryan Cracknell Apollo Guide

60

Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeanne Aufmuth Palo Alto Weekly

63

Full Review » 10 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

63

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

17

It really is like "Mad Max" gone to sea, both in its retro-futuristic, salvage-yard look and i ts frenetic pacing.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle

50

It's a genuine vault at greatness that misses the mark -- but survives.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kim Williamson Boxoffice Magazine

50

The story and dialogue provided by Peter Rader and David Twohy are surprisingly insubtantial.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

20

Full Review » 12 years ago
Andrew Howe Film Written Magazine

75

It's not $200 million of entertainment, but a dead loss is one thing it definitely ain't.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mark R. Leeper rec.arts.movies.reviews

0

Full Review » 13 years ago
Chris Hicks Deseret News, Salt Lake City

63

There is the nagging feeling that much of the film's story, dialogue and character development were left on the cutting-room floor.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

40

Waterworld is a marginal film: always extravagant, sometimes entertaining, often preachy and dull -- a pure formula picture.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Barbara Shulgasser San Francisco Examiner

50

Waterworld is ugly, loud, stupefyingly absurd.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Madeleine Williams Cinematter

63

Costner and Hopper give good characterizations. The entire movie, unfortunately, doesn't quite deliver the punch it ought to.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Joe Baltake Sacramento Bee

88

Waterworld is the movie that didn't happen. Which is a roundabout way of saying that the infamous Universal film is very good, damn good -- not great, mind you, but rousing and continually entertaining.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle

60

Waterworld is a near-model summer fantasy: two hours and 21 minutes of loud, expansive fun.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Oz eFilmCritic.com

40

Full Review » 13 years ago