You end the film with more questions than you had at the start and before you know it, you begin to understand why this film has the reputation it has. The whole thing feels lazily cobbled together with no attempt to link it all up.
At no point is the mystery of Enola's tattoo properly explained or even how she came into contact with Helen. The set-up isn't the only dumb thing about the film - the narrative is pretty one-dimensional and lacks any sort of surprise or explanation. In essence, you've already seen the best bits of the movie if you've seen the live show at the theme park. Even little things make absolutely no sense - given how expensive paper has apparently become, why does Deacon smoke so much instead of recycling the cigarette paper? This is a really dumb film, filled with characters that never act as you'd expect and lack any sort of characterisation or development. It exists in its own world, seemingly separate from the laws of plausibility and reason. Waterworld is not a film that rewards anyone who thinks about things too much. None of the writers took into consideration the fact that if the polar caps did melt, sea levels would only rise a few hundred feet - nothing like enough to result in the end of civilisation. The script underwent 36 different drafts by six different writers including an uncredited Joss Whedon who described the experience as seven weeks of hell.
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None of the sets or crew boats had toilets either, meaning filming had to be stopped to allow visits to nearby portable toilets on a barge. The crew stayed in uninsulated condos with no air-con. Costner stayed at a $4500-a-night ocean-front villa with butler, chef and a private swimming pool. Another reason behind the troubled production was the inequality between Costner's accommodation and that of the crew.Costner invested some $22 million of his own money into the project. The film originally had a budget of $100 million but after the multimillion dollar set was wrecked by a hurricane, the budget spiralled to an estimated $175 million - a then-record until it was beaten by James Cameron's Titanic.Reynolds was quoted as saying that Costner should only work on films that he directs because that way, he could work with his favourite actor and director.
Reynolds and Costner fought constantly behind the camera, resulting in Reynolds leaving the project and Costner taking over to finish directing the film.
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