Deepwater Horizon (2016) Reviews & Ratings
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Deepwater Horizon reviews
Deepwater Horizon holds a 6.9/10 average from 5,049 TMDB ratings.
As expected this is a bit of a propaganda movie against BP but that was of course rather expected. It is still watchable. The dramatization is fairly well done and the effects are believable as well as enjoyable. If you watch it as a disaster drama and special effects movie it is definitely okay. As a documentary, well I would say that it falls short. The movie only covers the initial explosion. Once the platform is…
— Dark Jedi (6/10)
**To remind us our errors and limits.** It was a surprising film. Because it was based on a real event, but there's nothing much about heroism which is essential for most of this kind of film and its success to inspire the viewers. I liked that. They just wanted to tell the story. Not to create a hero nor a villain. But due to the casting, Mark Wahlberg looks the centre of the story. And also points out a negative c…
— Reno (8/10)
**Very well-balanced, the film does not tire us and provides good entertainment.** Disaster and accident films are common, although I feel that, for the last ten years, this has been an underexplored genre. The film is based on a true incident where a massive oil drilling rig suffered critical safety failures, eventually catching fire and collapsing. After investigations, the inadequate operation of a team that was…
— Filipe Manuel Neto (6/10)
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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