I give it an 8, especially after seeing the extended cut. Hopper may over do it somewhat but it holds together as an excellent wet western.
I'm well aware that railing does no good
kurt2000

Gave it a 10, always considered it a great action movie with some great comedy.

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10 from me

I must have seen Waterworld four or five times over the years and still find it highly entertaining today. Don't know why it got so badly slammed by critics on its release but I'm glad I ignored them all.
Ok it may have a few flaws as others have mentioned but they aren't important enough to detract from what is essentially an adventure movie and a damned good one at that. It has a strong storyline, the lead characters are all believable, the chase scenes on the water are truly spectacular and all filmed for real without the usual in your face CGI that is par for the course in action movies these days.
I found watching the developing relationship between the mariner and the child extremely touching without being over sentimental, the swimming scene was beautifully done. At the end of the movie I really cared what happened to these people. A great film overall, I scored it 8/10.
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Loved it when it first came out, still love it today. It's unfortunate that ppl are such sheep they only read what was problematic technically, in 'secret behind the scenes interviews' rather than wait and view the film, and enjoy it.
When you get down to it, this was not a film about the post apocalyptic era, or about the environment, it was about friendship. Most of our personal favorite films are.

Meta critic. Who listen To them. I call them Rotten rejects. Theses sites don't care about The work This industry is doing. I am sure avengers And crappy films like This are in 80%

i gave it a 10 also.
sure there are a lot of things to nit pick, but its sci-fi, its fantasy, its to escape reality for a couple of hours, not be scientifically accurate on every detail.
its a great story. it!

You can't trust any of these ratings I think!
M.

I give it an 8. If it was released today it would be heralded as one of the greatest films of all time. Costner was subjected to a lot of unfair criticism back in the day.

Meta critic users have it at 3.1 which is lower than the critics. I give it a 5/10. Not bad, not good. Average.

I gave it a 10.