From what I understand, the problem with spending a ridiculous amount of money on a film starring Kevin Costner is that, well, Kevin Costner is in it. I really do love this movie, and only got a recent chance to catch up and watch the whole thing after seeing bits and pieces on TV for years. The storyline is fantastic and provides a stylistic and unique take on the post-apocalyptic genre. Some of the green screening and special effects are lackluster at best, but I mean it came out like a thousand years ago.

After the polar ice caps melt (which, strangely enough, is a global topic of discussion as something that could actually happen these days) the world is engulfed in water and the people are forced to survive on floating barges, villages and boats. Dry Land is a legend that everyone has heard, yet few people know whether it exists. Kevin Costner plays a lone drifter who keeps to himself, but when forced to take a woman and a young girl onto his boat, he continually debates whether to throw them overboard until they find a soft spot on his heart. Oh yeah, and he’s also a mutant – his mutations are that he has webbed toes and gills behind his ears like a fish and can swim underwater for hours. Costner is a good anti-hero in the film; I just wish he was in a movie where he didn’t talk like a robot for 90% of it.