AVClub: There’s a novelty inherent in seeing a Hollywood movie depict its characters’ chosen professions as unglamorously as Deepwater Horizon does when it shows the day-to-day operations of a drilling rig. These are some of the best parts of Peter Berg’s workmanlike disaster movie: riggers checking in at a heliport before being flown out for their 21-day shifts; a sore, tired-looking guy in safety-orange coveralls cracking a dumb joke; middle-aged men who pronounce “cement” as “see-ment” talking construction timetables; a visiting executive being asked to remove his magenta tie because of industry superstition. But in all other respects, this dramatization of the real-life 2010 blowout and fire that killed 11 people is a poor man’s Towering Inferno, despite the hefty $156 million budget.
You go into a movie thinking the main character is the good guy and then BAM–you had it all wrong.
MAI Review (2024): Phuong Anh Dao and Tran Thanh sparkle the brighest in this overdramatic movie.
One of 2023's biggest and dumbest creature features is making waves right now on streaming around the world.
