Kevin Costner’s Waterworld makes for an incredible theme park stunt show

Kevin Costner’s Waterworld was a legendary failure — with critics, with moviegoers, with profit margins. With a reported budget of $175 million, and a worldwide gross of only $264 million, the Kevin Reynolds-directed post-apocalyptic blockbuster gifted box-office reporters “sunk!” headlines for years to come. An outlandish premise didn’t help its legacy: Costner stars as a human-fish hybrid badass hero man in a world where the oceans have risen to cover the land and everyone drinks pee to survive. It’s weird, sad, and rather hopeless.