Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 4, 1995 TAG: 9508040079
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
-Jack Matthews, Newsday.
```Waterworld' has style, humor and panache, and it definitely pays off in the spectacle department''
-William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
``A moderately successful guy's movie with both weak and strong elements where lots of things are brilliantly blown up and few things make any kind of sense''
-Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times.
``A big, brawny, overzealously bizarre epic punctuated by daring action scenes, which are sloppily assembled ... but still exciting''
- Janet Maslin, The New York Times.
``A rousing summer crowd-pleaser, more satisfying than `Batman Returns,' more logical than `Die Hard With a Vengeance,' more spectacular than `Crimson Tide'''
- Rene Rodriguez, Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
```Waterworld' is merely harmless summer filler''
- Dolores Barclay, Associated Press.
``Is the movie worth $5-$6? The answer: Yes, for those who like quickly paced, lightweight summer adventure''
- Mike Mayo, The Roanoke Times.
ON THE HERO:
``Costner has the star power to carry a movie and carries this one just fine.''
- Arnold.
``Costner ... radiates the sexuality that drew at least as many women as men to `Dances With Wolves'''
- Yardena Arar, Los Angeles Daily News.
``Costner wears his usual stone face, though here it's less annoying than usual because the gravity suits the character''
- Rodriguez.
``Costner ... is totally humorless and as dreary as the landscape he travels''
- Barclay.
``Costner [is] attractively agile and muscular in a mostly sub-verbal role''
- Maslin.
ON THE VILLAIN:
```Waterworld' was a movie waiting to be stolen, and [Dennis]Hopper heartily obliged''
- Matthews.
``Hopper [is] inexcusably over the top as Deacon''
- Turan.
``Nobody chews scenery with Hopper's high style''
- Maslin.
``Hopper [does] his usual crazed villain thing''
- Arar.
``With his bald pate and mutilated eye, [Hopper's] Deacon is not entirely over the top but close to the perimeter''
- Barclay
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