-- spoilers -- The Water Knife is interesting to the extent that it creates a new sort of dystopian world, but then it doesn't do anything with it. I wanted t

-- spoilers -- The Water Knife is interesting to the extent that it creates a new sort of dystopian world, but then it doesn't do anything with it. I wanted to see characters evolve, the balance of power shift, or a meaningful escape. Instead it was just competing actors chasing a shiny object, a silly miscommunication, and then everything goes back to normal.