英语电影梗概

❶ 电影英文简介

The film briefly references Mayanism, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and the 2012 phenomenon in its portrayal of cataclysmic events unfolding in the year 2012. Due to solar flare bombardment the Earth's core begins heating up at an unprecedented rate. This results in a series of Doomsday event scenarios plunging the world into chaos, such as California falling into the Pacific Ocean, the eruption of the Yellowstone National Park caldera, shifting of the continents by crustal displacement, and Megatsunami impacts along every coast line on the Earth. The film centers around an ensemble cast of characters as they narrowly escape multiple catastrophes in an effort to reach ships in the Himalayas, along with scientists and governments of the world who are attempting to save as many lives as they can before the disasters ensue

❷ 求英语电影内容简介

阿甘正传，Forrest Gump who is unfortunately to be born with a lower IQ and the muscle problem, usually, people always think this kind of person can't be successful in doing anything. But, instead, this unlucky man has achieved lots of incredible success, he is a football star, a war hero, and later a millionaire!

勇敢的心，What kind of man would defy a king? Every man dies, not every man really lives. His passion captivated a woman. His courage inspired a nation. His heart defied a king. He who fought, fought for freedom

勇敢者的游戏，6-year-old Danny and 10-year-old Walter is a pair of naughty naughty two brothers, their father go out and snooze sister Lisa to stay at home. Danny naughty in their own house in the basement accidentally discovered a rectangular box, the box has a space travel game board with the inscription space pattern, the path through the purple color of the planet Zha Tula. Silly Danny pressed the button at random, the brothers were scared of the month half dead, flew to their homes as early as Cloud Nine. two brothers in an astronaut's help, from mutual accusations to rely on each other and help each other to jointly overcome the difficulties to the game in the end, ultimately they returned to the original world.

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❸ 用英语梗概电影（100字左右）

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❹ 求150字英文电影梗概

A Tale of Two Cities
The two cities in the story are Paris and London.
France was a great and rich city, but some parts were very poor. People there were very poor, hungry and sorrowful. The poorest part was St.Antoine, and Defarge was the owner of a wine shop in St.Antoine in Paris. One day, two strangers came, one was an English old man, and the other was a young lady. The man’s name was Lorry, and the lady’s name was Lucie. They were Dr.Manette’s friend and daughter. Dr.Manette had been put into the prison for 18 years. Now, he was in Defarge’s house. They went to Mr.Defarge’s house, and saw Dr.Manette, but he was nearly mad, he didn’t remember anything. Mr.Lorry, Lucie and Mr.Defarge wanted to take him to England at once. After a few days, they took Dr.Manette to England successfully. A year later, Dr.Manette became normal.
One day in 1780, they met Mr.Darnay and Mr.Carton in a trial in London. Soon they became good friends. Darney was saved by Carton. Then, Darnay married Lucie. The Marquis of Evrémonde, Darnay’s uncle, was a really bad guy. He didn’t want anyone to be healthy, especially Darnay. He had killed many people. Now, he was murdered by the poor. A few years later, many poor people charged at the Bastille. Defarge found a letter where Manette had been imprisoned.
Now the poor everywhere cheered that they killed rich nobles, and the servant of Darnay had been arrested. Darnay had to go to France to save his old servant’s life. But Darnay was soon arrested, so Carton and his friends had to go to save him. Darnay became free because Manette had been a prisoner of the Bastille. But Darnay wasn’t free for long, he was arrested again. He was accused by Manette’s letter, Mr. and Mrs. Defarge. He didn’t have any hopes. He had to be killed. But Carton had appeared before Darnay’s death. They changed each other’s clothes, Carton stayed in the Bastille instead of Darnay, and Darnay got out. Manette’s family returned to London, and Carton died for Darnay.
I like Carton very much, even though he stood for sorrow and misfortune, but he could die for his friend, this is real friendship. He’s really very kind. He wasn’t afraid of dying. He loved Lucie very much, but he didn’t let her know it, because he didn’t want her to be hurt. I think it is the most sincere love in the world. Defarge wasn’t a good person. He was very kind in the beginning, but he wanted his friend’s son-in-law to die, he was very cruel, I hate him. Carton had to die for his friend, because Defarge made him die. I think the characters written by Charles Dickens were diverse. I like this book very much.
长了点,双城记.

❺ 需求2部英文电影的故事梗概

1、这个杀手不太冷：

故事发生在纽约大都会里，由让·雷诺所饰演的职业杀手里昂，受餐厅老板委托杀人。当他是以杀手的身份出现时，冷静而神秘，杀人手法令人热血沸腾。但当他卸下杀手面具时，则又回归成为平凡的市井小民，简单到连基本身份证、银行帐号都没有，每天至少喝杯鲜奶，喜欢浇花及细心地擦拭心爱盆栽的树叶，是个具有双重身份角色扮演的人。而就在里昂所住的公寓内，有人暗渡陈仓的进行毒品交易，小女孩马蒂达的父亲是警方缉毒组的线人，因为贪心，私吞了部分毒品，遭到神经质警官斯坦报复，杀了全家人却遗漏了小女孩马蒂达。马蒂达为了安全起见而躲进隔壁里昂家，她知道了里昂的杀手身份，为了保护自己及报灭门之仇，马蒂达以坚定的口气要求里昂训练她成为一位真正的职业杀手……在此之后，斯坦亦全力搜寻马蒂达以杀人灭口……里昂只身闯入警局解救去复仇的马蒂达，并杀死了警员。警方大惊慌之余，下令围剿公寓楼并全力搜捕里昂，双方交战之下引发了一场紧张刺激的终极追杀。 里昂撂倒一片警察，再次救出女孩并让她通过通风管道逃生，并嘱咐她他留给她的钱在餐厅老板那里。里昂化装成警察想混出包围圈，但被斯坦识破。最后一刻，里昂引爆了身上的炸弹……里昂已经40岁了，他是一名习惯独来独往的职业杀手，并且始终恪守着不杀女人和孩子的原则；而玛蒂达却只是一个普通的12岁的邻家女孩。这样的两个人的生活轨迹本互不相干，原来也不会有任何交集，然而只因后者不幸惨遭灭门之祸才令二人意外的走到了一起，并且在他们之间还产生了一种奇妙的化学反应：爱情。

2、海上钢琴师

一九零零年的第一天。邮轮弗吉尼亚号载着熙熙攘攘的欢呼人群在纽约港靠岸。在梦想的鼓动下黑压压的人流涌下船，迎接充满可能性的美好未来。喧嚣过后，船上除了船员所剩无几。添煤工人Danny Boodman于是偷偷跑到餐厅搜罗客人遗落下的贵重物品，结果一无所获。失望之余，他在钢琴架上发现一个漂亮的婴儿。他抱起婴儿，看见他的目光清澈，皮肤白净。Danny Boodman对这意外收获十分惊喜，于是收留了这个孩子，起名叫Danny Boodman T.D.Lemon Nineteen Hundred(丹尼 博德曼 T.D.雷蒙1900），纪念这孩子在新世纪的第一天被他收养。 善良的Danny Boodman十分疼爱小1900，教他识字，从不让他受苦。但因为没有任何出生证明之类的文件，Danny Boodman害怕1900会被别人抢走，所以不许他离开船舱一步。 在1900八岁时，Danny Boodman因为船上的机械操纵失误死了，在懵懂的1900于生离死别前迷茫时，突然听见远处传来美妙动人的声音，他回过头，身边一个亚洲女人告诉他，这是音乐。 几日后，1900在夜里偷偷溜进餐厅，来到白天专属乐手演奏娱乐上等乘客的钢琴前，弹起了自己即兴随想的曲子。歌声吵醒了许多乘客，他们好奇的想去探个究竟，却都陶醉在这小家伙如天籁般的音乐中。直到音乐停下来，船长才过去对他说，“1900，这一切都违背常规。”年幼的1900看着他的说：“去它的常规。” （Fuck the regulations） 几年后，成人的1900成了弗吉尼亚号乐队的钢琴师，虽然他从未下过船，但是却能在钢琴上幻想世间的一切，在一次暴风雨中，他巧遇了正在晕船的Max，两个人十分投缘。从此，Max成了他一生的知己。 Max十分欣赏他的音乐才华，但也同时对他固执的不肯下船登上陆地感到困惑。他希望1900能向世人展示自己的才华，得到世人的承认，名利双收，过上好的生活。但对1900而言，世人向往的生活对他而言太过遥远，无法理解，也因此根本不具备诱惑力。 之后，人们对1900音乐才华的广为传颂，爵士乐的始祖Jelly Roll Morton自认自己的才华无人能及，因而向1900发起挑战。最终1900获胜，这次比赛更加让1900名声大噪，唱片出版商希望为他录制唱片，并保证他会名利双收，他的内心依然平静，安于生活和音乐带给他的快乐。直到他遇到一个朴素而迷人的女孩。那一天他正在录制唱片，女孩顺着窗子向里看，和他四目相对，尽管女孩仅仅是在用窗户的反射照镜子,他却立刻爱上了她。随兴而发弹奏了一曲柔情似水的曲子。（那个女子就是手风琴匠的女儿，那个老人曾与1900在船舱内交心畅谈过。他来到了美国，开立了一家鱼店，开始了全新的生活。而1900却始终不能释怀。直到最后一刻。）唱片录制完成，出版商把唱片放给1900听，他没有把唱片给出版商，因为他不允许别人把他的音乐从他身边带走。他犹豫再三，想把唱片送给那位素不相识的女孩，却没能如愿以偿，1900无法掩饰自己的哀伤，他失望地毁了唱片把碎片扔在垃圾桶里。于是他与爱情失之交臂。（后由Max把唱片的碎片藏到了1900的钢琴中，这是1900唯一留下的音乐记录） 在女孩下船之后，Max和1900谁都没有再次提起那个女孩，1900依旧弹着钢琴，但心里却一直牵挂着女孩。Max的劝说和对爱情生活的憧憬打动了他，在至少十二年后的某个春天他最终决定下船，登上陌生的陆地。那天所有的船员都和他挥手告别，他穿着Max送给他的大衣，缓慢的走下船梯，但当他走到船梯的一半时，他茫然的看着偌大的纽约市，凝视了一阵，他突然摘掉头上的礼帽并将之抛了出去，礼帽掉在了船与大陆之间的海面上，然后1900转过头，返回到了船上。他对Max说，我再也不下船了。自此，他与世界失之交臂。 直到许多年后，大战结束，早已离开弗吉尼亚号的Max偶然发现破旧的维珍尼亚号就要被炸掉，他坚信1900在船上，可是1900并没有露面，直到船马上要被炸毁前，Max拿到当年的唱片独自在船上播放的时候，1900才在角落里现身。但是1900执意不肯下船，他说出了当年他未能下船的原因：世界太广阔了，让他陌生得害怕，那些城市里的街道无边无际，就像有无数个键的没有尽头的钢琴一样让他感到恐惧，他宁可退出生命的舞台，给自己一个尽头，而不愿意茫然无措的面对一个无边无际，无所适从的生活。Max无法劝他下船，最终悲伤的离去，在远处目送维珍尼亚号和1900一同被炸弹粉碎。 那天他告诉那个他曾对之提起过1900的传奇故事的乐器行老板：1900死了，老板也感到惋惜，于是把Max因为窘迫卖掉的小号还给了他并对他说，一个好的故事比一个旧小号值钱。带着旧小号与1900的音乐传奇，Max离开了，从此，只有Max一个人会记起那一生不会踏上陆地的天才钢琴师和他传奇的一生。

很经典的两部电影。

❻ 概括英文电影（寒假作业）

查理的巧克力工厂
精彩对白Shopkeeper: You found Wonka's last golden ticket!店主：你得到了旺卡的最后一张金门票！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------[Mike has just found a Golden Ticket] （麦克刚刚拿到了一张金奖票）TV Reporter: So tell us,what did it taste like?电视记者：告诉我们，它味道如何？ Mike Teavee: I don't know,I hate chocolate!麦克：我不知道，我讨厌巧克力！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Willy Wonka: Don't touch that squirrel's nuts! It'll make him crazy!威利·旺卡：别碰松鼠们的松果！那会使它们生气的！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grandma Georgina: Nothing's impossible,Charlie.奶奶乔治娜：一切皆有可能，查理。--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Willy Wonka: Little boy,don't push my button.威利·旺卡：孩子，不要碰我的那个按钮。--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Wonka: Lollipops. Ought to be called cavities on a stick!旺卡医生：棒棒糖，应该被叫做蛀牙棒！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Wonka: Do you have an appointment? 旺卡医生：你预约了么?Charlie: no,but he needs to check.查理：没有，但是他早就应该来看看了。

❼ 英文电影简介50字

第一部《哈利波特与魔法石》Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
11-year old Harry, mistreated by his heartless relatives, realizes that he is, in fact, a wizard. Led by the friendly giant Hagrid, he goes to the famous Howarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to start his 7 year long wizard ecation. But someone is up to something bad in the Dark forest outside the school...

第二部《哈利波特与密室》
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter's adventures continue...Harry Potter begins his second year at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, but is warned by a mysterious creature that danger awaits him at the school. Malevolent voices whisper from the walls. Soon it's not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts.

第三部《哈利波特与阿磁卡班的囚徒》
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"He's at Hogwarts. He's at Hogwarts." The infamous Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and all sources believe he's after Harry Potter's life. What connection could there be between Harry's past and this crazed murderer? Can Harry figure it out before Black gets to him? And why does Mr. Weasley think Harry may want to find Black first? A shocking insight to a night 12 years ago.

第四部《哈利波特与火焰杯》
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire takes us deeper into the characters' minds and the darkness of the Wizarding World. At the Quidditch World Cup, Voldemort's followers gather and wreak havoc. Then, at Hogwarts, a legendary event takes place. The Triwizard Tournament! The Goblet of Fire judges who gets in and who doesn't. On the fateful night, three champions are selected. But then the Goblet spits out one other. Harry's. These two major events point to the return of Lord Voldemort. Dumbledore and the other teachers sense it, but it is inevitable. And Harry is no longer safe at Hogwarts. This fourth installment is the most dramatic, and also the scariest. Let me just say that all does not necessarily end well...

❽ 请用英语概括出一部电影的大致内容，字数不用很多！！

《2012》Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world......

❾ 电影英语简介！！！

狮子王
There is a little lion called Ziba whose father is a king .His parents are very kind to him.He has so many pals and lives a happy life .
Unluckily.his father was killed one day .He thought it was his fault and he regreted a lot.
He lost the touch with his family since then.His two pals helped him to lead a new life .
His mother and other family members thought he had died .One day ,his girlfriend met him by accident .She persuadee him to come back to get his kingdom .He first did not take her advisebut then he agreeed with the help of a magical monkey
He returned and he got to know it's his uncle who ended his father'life .He fought against him and he won at last .
He saved his mother and other lions and became king of his tribe .He is lion of great determination and iron will. He is a really Hero!

小狮子辛巴是狮子国王的儿子。他的父母非常疼爱他。他有许多好朋友并且居住愉快的生活。
不幸发生了，辛巴的父亲被杀害了。他认为它是他的错，并且他很内疚
辛巴从那以后与他的家庭失去联系。他的两个个好朋友丁满和鹏鹏帮助他融入新的生活。
辛巴的母亲和其他家庭成员认为他死了。一天，他的女朋友偶然地遇见了他。她劝他回来拿回他的王国。他首先没有接受她的意见。但是最后他在一只不可思议的猴子帮助下然后同意了
辛巴回来了，并且他知道它是是他的伯父杀害了他的父亲。辛巴与伯父作战，最后辛巴胜利了。
辛巴保护了他的母亲和其他狮子，并且成为了他的部落的国王。他是只伟大而且勇敢的狮子，他真正地成为一个英雄!

功夫熊猫(Kung Fu Panda)

It's the story about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, named Po, who is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around...which doesn't exactly come in handy while working every day in his family's noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po's dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

它是关于一只懒惰熊猫的故事，名为Po，附近是功夫最大的发源地…当每天工作在他的家庭面条店时，po每天都希望能加入功夫行列中，意想不到地乌龟大师选择履行古老预言， Po的梦想成为现实，当他加入功夫世界并且沿着他的梦想学习，但却激怒了神奇五狭 -- 老虎、仙鹤、螳螂、蛇和猴子 。在他们的宗师的领导下一起干po走 但是，当他们知道不久之后，雪豹Tai向他们报复回来了，并且会对po和庄园进行威胁，大师不得不向po传授功夫。 他可以把他的梦想成真？为变成Kung Fu大师？ Po终于全心全意地去参加训练，接受了任务：原来他的最巨大的弱点结果是他的最巨大的力量！不可思议的英雄诞生了！

变形金刚(Transformers )
In the Arctic Circle ring the 1800s, Captain Archibald Witwicky chips away at a massive sheet of ice, only to break it and fall into an abyss, landing on a robotic hand partially buried in the ice. He finds the eyes of Decepticon leader Megatron staring back at him, who burns a map showing the location of the life giving Allspark into Witwicky's eyeglasses. These are handed down to his descendant, Sam, in the present day. Elsewhere, Decepticon Blackout attacks a United States Air Force base in Qatar in the present day, grabbing and absorbing information from a computer whilst he destroys the base and deploys Scorponok. Scorponok chases Captain Lennox and his Special Ops team in the desert and in a village, when Lennox makes a phone call to The Pentagon, who send a jet to fight off the Decepticon. Sam Witwicky buys his first car, which happens to be the Autobot Bumblebee. Bumblebee helps Sam to gain Mikaela as his girlfriend. The Autobots come looking for Archibald's glasses, whilst hiding in Sam's yard, and the nefarious Sector 7 comes to invade Sam's house. The film eventually concludes with a battle that begins at the Hoover Dam and concludes in Los Angeles as Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Megatron face each other.

在19世纪期间的北极圈， Archibald Witwicky上尉损害冰巨型的板料，只有打破它和落入深渊，登陆在冰部分地埋没的一只机器人手。 发现Decepticon领导人Megatron的眼睛凝视他的他，烧显示给与生命Allspark地点的地图入Witwicky的镜片。 这些被递下来对他的后裔，山姆，在现在。 在别处，他毁坏基地并且部署Scorponok， Decepticon停电在现在，劫掠和引人入胜的信息的卡塔尔攻击美国空军基地从计算机。 Scorponok在沙漠追逐队上尉Lennox和他的特别Ops和在村庄，当Lennox打一个电话到五角大楼时，送一架喷气机与Decepticon战斗。 山姆买他的第一辆汽车，竟然是大黄蜂。 大黄蜂帮助山姆获取Mikaela作为他的女朋友。 掩藏在山姆的围场和恶毒区段来侵略山姆的房子， Autobots来寻找Archibald的玻璃。 影片以开始在胡佛水坝并且在洛杉矶结束作为Autobot领导人Optimus最初和Megatron面孔的争斗最终结束。

❿ 英文电影简介（英语）

第五元素的 其他的再等会
Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms. In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of anti-energy, anti-life. This "thing," this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and all light.

Every five thousand years, the universe needs a hero, and in New York City of the 23rd Century, a good hero is hard to find.

One of today's most provocative and acclaimed filmmakers, director Luc Besson's works have captured the imaginations of filmgoers worldwide. His visually innovative style has marked the critically-acclaimed thriller The Professional, the exotic undersea adventure The Big Blue, the new wave thriller Subway and the seminal action film La Femme Nikita, the first major French blockbuster. Now, Besson teams with Bruce Willis, one of the most dynamic and successful actors of his generation, to take the science fiction film in a new and exciting direction.

Columbia Pictures presents The Fifth Element, a timeless story about love and survival, heroes and villains, good and evil, set in a strangely familiar yet intoxicatingly different 23rd Century.
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The title of The Fifth Element refers to the four elements of alchemic Greek tradition -earth, air, fire, and water. Four elements gathered together to create the fifth one: life. Besson conceived of this energy -- the energy used to talk, to engage in sports, even to think -- as an actual, living thing that never disappears, but spreads throughout the universe and beyond.

Though the acclaimed writer/director conceived of the story while still a teenager, he was unaware that the concept of a fifth element -- known in Moorish traditions as "Akasha" -- is deeply rooted in ancient mythology. Besson remembers: "When my father came across Plato's writings on the subject, he came to me with the book and said, 'Do you know that your movie is a remake?' I read it, and was amazed to see the similarities between what Plato had written and what I had put into the script."

In The Fifth Element, Besson posits the question: what if an opposite form of life existed in another dimension -- one not made up of life-energy, but a dark, cancerous embodiment of all that is evil? "The energy of life, and this other, evil life-form, are opposites, like fire and ice," Besson explains, "and the more of this life-energy we create, the more it irritates and provokes this other."

In the 23rd century of The Fiffh Element, humanity has wandered out among the stars, spreading this life-energy, and further agitating the dark being. "It feels as if we are asphyxiating it," Besson notes. "It is dying because of us. It wants to fight back, and extinguish every source of energy or light --animal, vegetable, human. But it has its own limitations: it is isolated in another dimension."

The dark being's time to strike back occurs only once every 5,000 years when a doorway between the parallel dimensions briefly opens. "At the very beginning of the movie," says Besson, "we show that a way was once found to fight this entity, but the years have passed, and the way is forgotten. When our story begins, he is back, and no one knows how to defeat him."

The setting in which this heroic quest drama unfolds is among the most fully-realized fantasy worlds ever committed to film, and certainly one of the most unique. "We looked at all of human history," says Besson, "in order to come up with what we think is a very possible scenario for humanity in the year 2259, which is when the story takes place -- to be very precise, the story begins on March 18, 2259, at 2 a.m. What will the evolution be? How will people live, and think? And how will that be reflected in the world? It seemed very important to me to create for this story a world that people can accept as a real possibility for the future."

The result is a menagerie of weirdly exotic aliens: hulking, armored creatures with incongruously small heads called the Mondoshawan who, despite their imposing presence, work on the side of good; and huge, doglike Mangalores -- an army of mercenaries in the service of Zorg (Gary Oldman), the agent of all that is evil. The filmmakers also created imagery of a brave, new Earth that has never been seen before, along with an array of fantastically-imagined vistas on other planets and our own.
未来水世界
In the future, the polar ice caps have melted, the world is covered by water, and everyone is left to fend for themselves as scavengers in a grim reality. This is Waterworld, and you'll be glad to know: even in this harsh realm, the women still shave their legs.

The most expensive movie ever made (the final word is $172 million), Waterworld will be a true monument in Kevin Costner's career. Unfortunately, this film isn't going to have quite the effect something like Dances with Wolves had. The bottom line is Waterworld is a marginal film: always extravagant, sometimes entertaining, often preachy and ll--a pure formula picture.

The story is time-tested and painfully simple. Costner plays The Mariner, a lone drifter on the watery surface of the earth who talks about his boat more than Forrest Gump. Jeanne Tripplehorn (The Firm) plays Helen, the love interest and the protector of Enola (Tina Majorino), a child with a strange tattoo which just may show the way to the mythical paradise of Dryland. The obligatory bad guy is The Deacon (Dennis Hopper), a slave driver/preacher with heavy artillery that acts a lot like, well, Dennis Hopper. I won't be the only one to say, "It's Mad Max on water."

Of course, The Deacon wants the kid. The Mariner wants to protect her and falls in love with Helen. So for 134 minutes, The Deacon chases the trio, turning up over and over and over, always out of nowhere (ever try to hide on the ocean?), and always being thwarted by The Mariner. Basically, it's Costner trying to be a superhero, swinging around on a lot of ropes and blowing up everything else.

This gets pretty old after awhile, especially since Costner looks more concerned with what's for dinner than what's on the screen. The other problems are innumerable: it's hard to figure out where the story is headed, the bad guys act like members of a bumbling Keystone Coast Guard, and a number of effects are obvious digital fakes. There are a few bright spots, but it ends up being a passable story with lackluster execution.

All the hype surrounding this film has really spoiled what there was to enjoy. If you see it, you'll probably be trying to figure out where all that money went, too (I only counted about $100 million). It's too bad; you'll need that brainpower just to figure out what's going on.