where did the baddies get the petrol for the jet-skis?
Shimrod, my friend. Do you remember that big-=ass tanker "The Exxon Valdez" that was their base of operations? They had lots of oil. Maybe your point was that oil isn't petrol, in which case I agree with you. I guess we were to assume a method of cracking the crude.
Another reason that the movie was "pre-trashed" was that the budget doubled from about $60million to over $120 million. This was because most of the sets were destroyed in a storm off Kuwai.
I remember that the film was getting bad press for the budget before completion, as if Kostner was somehow responsible for the weather.
That being said, it's not one of his better films...essentially "The Road Warrior" on water. brain candy.