Theleader of the Smokers is Deacon (a chain-smoker, of course), played by DennisHopper as another of his violent cackling loonies. "Pure dirt! 3.2 kilos!" He trades it for cash, spendssome of it at the bar, and meets Helen ( Jeanne Tripplehorn), the bartender.Then he offends the locals by refusing to contribute to their gene pool, and islocked in a cage when the fortress comes under attack from Smokers - renegadeoutlaws who prowl the seas in souped-up jet skis. He goes to trade at a big floating "atoll," which islike a seagoing version of the post-apocalyptic city in "Mad Max BeyondThunderdome." He has something they want. Marineris a loner, a "mutie," or mutant, with gills behind his ears, andwebbed feet. But like so many science fiction movies, this onebypasses the best possibilities of the genre: Instead of science andspeculation, we get a lot of violent action scenes. Iwould have welcomed more of those details about the global floating culturethat Mariner is a part of.
Then he gargles, and spits on his little lime tree, so we know howhe gets fresh water and vitamin C. Cut to Mariner ( Kevin Costner), aboard his trimaran, a sailingvessel that looks made out of spare parts from "Mad Max." The firstshot of an action hero is supposed to set the tone for a movie remember yourinitial glimpses of James Bond or Batman, and compare them with"Waterworld," which shows Mariner peeing into a bottle, pouring thefluid into a home-made chemistry set, cranking a handle to process it, and thendrinking it.
Themovie begins with the trademark Universal globe spinning in space, and then wesee the polar ice cap melting while a deep voice (not James Earl Jones for achange) sets the story in "the future," when all of the Earth iscovered in water.
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