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Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon

2016
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 47m
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. (imdb)
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Deepwater Horizon

2016
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 47m
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Rated 07 Oct 2016
70
53rd
One of my new favourite film genres is Whalberghistploitation where someone decides to throw Marky Mark into a recent "disaster" and just let him feel it out. Boston Marathon bombing? Gimme Marky Mark. Oil platform explosion? MARKY MARK. We are all building up to the Marky Mark stops 9/11 movie.
Rated 09 Oct 2016
95
84th
I don't think I've seen a movie this heavy for a long time... Peter Berg and co. bring together a script for a subject that isn't thought of more than just a big spill but Deepwater Horizon quickly becomes a really gripping, intense thriller that isn't overcome by action cliches and is written to give you emotional experience along the way. If this is really how everything went down, then damn... When things start to pick up, they do and it never lets up. Acting is all good as well. Recommended.
Rated 30 Sep 2016
70
77th
Deepwater Horizon is the best disaster film in a while, even if it isn't going for a ton of originality. The only surprise comes from it being a film about the Deepwater Horizon explosion and eventual Gulf of Mexico oil spill - and it focuses on the former and the humans involved rather than the latter. That runs counter to how the entire event was covered, and subsequently how we remember it - and that might make it more valuable than anything else.
Rated 10 Feb 2017
75
71st
Raise your hand if you thought Gina Rodriguez was Michelle Rodriguez. This is a decent disaster movie and Wahlburgers thankfully doesn't phone it in with his standard Boston Bro acting. No idea if this was a faithful portrayal of actual events but it is exciting to see a giant oil platform explode into an epic fuckoff fireball. Condolences to the people who lost their lives in real life though. Support our troops. Get er done. Never forget.
Rated 01 Jan 2018
70
65th
Wahlberg, Malkovich and Russell deliver the goods, and the first half is really good. Although I started to zone out later on (once everything was on fire for a long time), I found the first couple of action scenes with the mud quite effective.
Rated 09 Oct 2016
85
66th
Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon is chaotic, informative, and exceptionally well-made.
Rated 30 Oct 2017
8
81st
The build-up is perfect, right from the chilling opening "spoiler" audio: Excellent foreshadows (see the coke can) and an eerie soundtrack keep you on the edge of your seat amidst the well-crafted sense of normalcy (the jargon-heavy dialogue does a great job here), while the classic tension between money and safety is well executed (Malkovich's Vidrine is a chilling adversary). The explosion-heavy scenes that follow start to tire, but an emotionally potent epilogue is suitably cathartic.
Rated 01 Oct 2016
70
46th
Coming from someone who loathes disaster movies, Deepwater Horizon gets it mostly right. Brief in exposition and dubious side plots, the film manages to tell the story without much fluff. The action scenes are intense and believable, and no character seems to be doing the impossible. Berg continues his 'docu-disaster' genre.
Rated 22 Dec 2016
80
91st
Great film. High-intensity thriller with incredible production value, based on true events. Has the pacing and feel of a Paul Greengrass film. A must-watch.
Rated 28 Feb 2017
55
53rd
Hubris and greed and other very bad things. More accurate than not, very tense, convincing special effects and quite well-written: this has to be one of the more effective disaster movies of all time (for what that's worth). That people tend to treat Berg like a hack but Bigelow like an auteur is due partly to perceived ideological objectionability and mostly to crowd psychology (admittedly I haven't seen any of Berg's war-themed movies, unless you count BATTLESHIP, but I've seen Bigelow's).
Rated 13 Oct 2016
70
56th
Is it a bit problematic to be entertained by a gigantic environmental disaster that cost human lives? Maybe, but 'Deepwater Horizon' is actually a solid and surprisingly well-functioning action-thriller.
Rated 06 Nov 2016
100
90th
It's been a long while since I saw something this slick and on point in the genre. Exactly zero parts of this are too short or too long - really commendable pacing. Great effects work, the rig and disaster are brought to life in a thoroughly believable way. I really enjoy this kind of confined space thriller. Whoever thought of ressurrecting Kurt Russell's career is a genius.
Rated 06 Nov 2016
7
57th
Deepwater Horizon is one of the most thrilling and intense disaster films that I can recall in a long time. The fact that this film is based on true events takes the intensity of this cinematic experience to another level. Peter Berg has crafted another gripping and believable documentary style experience and the imagery is both jaw dropping and shockingly realistic. And the well grounded performances from Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and the whole supporting cast are integral to the realism.
Rated 28 Jul 2017
68
63rd
It seems I have a taste for disaster movies after Dunkirk. This was a very informative, tense and well-made movie with a great cast and great effects. There was also substantial emotional resonance with certain characters which does make you more invested in the whole affair a little more. It can get a bit hard to follow, especially the complicated rig terminology, but it seems the experts are chiming in to say it was all ringing true. Seems it was a fairly accurate portrayal so sheesh...
Rated 11 Nov 2016
70
74th
Really strong move by Berg and the writers to focus so heavily on the human element of this tragic disaster, right down to the shop talk dialogue that's hard to follow at times but adds a ton of context to the characters. This is Berg at his best.
Rated 31 Dec 2016
60
38th
Frankly, I just prefer a good documentary over a dramatisation
Rated 14 Sep 2016
68
50th
Solid action scenes and intensity. The exposition and background stories are very forced and clumsy at the beginning but thankfully they are most kept to the sidelines once it gets going.
Rated 16 Dec 2017
7
50th
this was a lot better than I was expecting. basically 1h30m of stuff exploding, it was cool. I was also really surprised at how hard they layed into BP and made them look like huge shitbags for how mainstream of a movie this was.
Rated 18 Oct 2016
60
40th
* I wasn't expecting much from this film, but turned out to be a decent ride. Although bad editing and too many close ups made it difficult to watch for a while, the story is gripping and annoying as it unrolls.
Rated 20 Dec 2016
44
26th
I like my thrillers to thrill and my dramas to drarm, this is too much drama and not enough action or too much action and not enough drama
Rated 08 Jan 2017
65
80th
When did James Carville join BP?
Rated 22 Jul 2017
74
42nd
This is a good disaster film. The film has a nice ensemble cast that works well together. The script has some good moments. Overall I would recommend this film.
Rated 20 Jan 2017
85
88th
Actually surprisingly good. I was moved by the ending.
Rated 18 Jan 2017
60
89th
Absolutely a well crafted disaster film which I enjoyed a surprising amount, but this is a true story I wish they's had focus on those in charge and the alternate reality those in privilege lives in. Cue then BP boss Tony Hayward....
Rated 07 Jan 2017
80
85th
A tense, thrilling disaster movie, elevated by its true life origins. All of the cast are on top form too.
Rated 23 Oct 2016
75
51st
After a stunningly mediocre summer of disappointing blockbusters, this proves to be one of the more surprisingly exciting films of the year. The build-up works, thankfully relying more on establishing the set over cheesy characterisation, and Berg does an excellent job showing how troubles escalate to the disaster they become (with a lot of visceral gusto when things go bang). My only real complaint is that more focus on those that were killed would've been more honourable than not showing it.
Rated 11 Feb 2017
85
91st
This is pretty good stuff. A good cast and some tense action that starts up pretty soon after the film starts. Definitely worth a look.
Rated 27 Jan 2017
62
36th
Stunning effects and a captivating story in an otherwise unremarkable film.
Rated 27 Jan 2017
67
43rd
Surprisingly decent, if a bit misleading and oddly weighted. Looks great and doesn't let up after it gets going. Kinda like the oil well.
Rated 01 Feb 2017
65
64th
60 minutes of surprisingly well-made, well-acted and enjoyable workplace drama, 30 minutes of below average action and 10 minutes of cringeworthy Captain Phillips rip-off.
Rated 08 Oct 2016
66
64th
Relatively good action thriller movie.
Rated 29 Dec 2016
50
2nd
First 52 minutes nothing happens, then something happens and the rest is pretty boring too.
Rated 02 Jan 2017
77
69th
Suspenful and heartbreaking. Really well-made film about a real life disaster with a solid performance from the cast, solid directing and great visuals.
Rated 16 Jan 2017
80
51st
It becomes more of an action flick than anything else and it should have had more characterization within the core group. It was nice to see Dylan O'Brien on the big screen, same with Gina Rodriguez but we had no reason to really invest in either one of their characters. Still a good film because it easily passes some time but really there is no real level of depth to this film beyond the fact that is based on a true story.
Rated 02 Feb 2017
3
65th
A very well predisposed movie. Not overdone with a lot of unnecessary emotional scenes. Great acting from everyone. Well worth a watch. *Good
Rated 11 Jan 2017
65
48th
Not bad at all. Realistic approach with much less holywood drama than you would expect.
Rated 22 Jan 2017
76
58th
Perhaps not the flashiest film for a while, and it does drag its feet in the first act, but once the oil rig explodes it gets really interesting. It doesn't even attempt to touch on the environmental consequences afterwards, but it doesn't seem to be the movie's point. It's far from perfect, and it's something that I'll probably forget later - but I was - in a morbid, and probably wrong way - entertained.
Rated 11 Dec 2016
74
35th
The true story of how, thanks to corporate corner-cutting, the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up and flooded the Gulf of Mexico with oil. A fairly harrowing recreation of the rig's destruction, with highly impression effects, sets, and sound design, balanced (imperfectly) by heavy-handed and truncated preliminaries and the overall insistence on making it a Mark Wahlberg vehicle. Worth a watch for the spectacle, but one wonders how much better J.C. Chandor's vision would've been.
Rated 25 Dec 2016
80
62nd
A well-paced action movie based on a real event with life-like characters. The ingredients are all there. Peter Berg is starting to fill in Clint Eastwood's shoes with his all American hero survivor stories.
Rated 22 Jan 2018
5
43rd
Aside from stunning visuals, Deepwater Horizon is one of Peter Berg's better films. Berg and Wahlberg are one of the better actor/director relationships working today, as for a natural disaster movie, they find a way to give character progression, solid script, and deliever on the disaster itself, even if it takes a little time to get there. Even when getting lost with what's exactly going on in disaster, the film holds up in areas it most counts.
Rated 28 Jan 2017
6
70th
Wish Berg could go back in time and take lessons in establishing cinematic geography from Die Hard-era McTiernan - maybe I'm just an idiot, but I spent a lot of this film not quite grasping where we were, where we were going, which room and walkway was where, etc. But, all that said, Berg does have a great grasp for strong emotional performances, a certain raw and naturalistic mise-en-scène, and, as it turns out, big-ass explosions. This movie is definitely worth it for the sheer experience.
Rated 25 Jan 2017
48
32nd
Exactly what you expect it to be and pretty good at being it. Exciting and horrifying at the same time, with Malkovich adding one more snarling bad guy to his long register. There's certainly a better way to tell this tale, taking more of a political bigger-picture view. But as a re-telling of the events of the day, this is pretty much the best you're gonna get.
Rated 21 Jan 2017
11
45th
W3E1P1S1V2M1A1R1. Watched this with my former drilling engineer dad, who was giddy with how (mostly) realistic it was. Of course, that made it relatively boring for the uninitiated, and deprived it of much lingering drama. But visually glorious, and a great learning experience with no eye rolls.
Rated 23 Jul 2020
70
53rd
Dazed, ashamed, oil-soaked Foghorn Malkovich is just the thing to pull me out of Halloween retirement. I mean, pit stains are part of the costume! I'm back like BP's stock, babies!!!
Rated 31 Dec 2016
55
58th
All I keep hearing is how this film is one of the top 10 of 2016...and I just don't get it. If it were not based on a true story, would it still qualify? Most disaster movies revolve around people trying to escape said disaster...it's usually the meat of the film and takes a hell of a lot of effort to pull off. In this case, from explosion to rescue, it seems like 20 minutes have gone by, with very few roadblocks. It felt rushed. Also, Malkovich is the most obvious villain in film history.
Rated 19 Jan 2017
61
55th
No spoiler alert needed ... the oil rig turns into a deadly inferno My opinion here : http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/2017/01/deepwater-horizon-2016.html
Rated 14 Mar 2017
74
48th
Another disaster movie that's just a little too formulaic to be great. I completely brushed it off as laughable when I heard about it thinking, "Oh, a disaster movie about that oil spill? That sounds...dumb." Of course, it's replete with the obligatory money grubbing corporate douches cutting corners, and the hard working front liners with only admirable attributes, hell, they even worked in the obligatory birds covered in oil. Even though it's pretty average, it's got good action and effects.
Rated 16 Dec 2017
68
65th
Surprisingly effective for a pretty straightforward story. There are some impressive fire and explosions but for every one of those, there is mass confusion on what's blowing up, and where, and who that guy was. Maybe it was just me. Still though, its a solid piece of quick entertainment with only a small amount of what seems to be forced melodrama.
Rated 03 Jan 2017
6
54th
A salute is in order for Peter Berg - the man can direct a disaster movie like nobody's business. What strengthens Deepwater Horizon and raises the bar on the possibilities of the genre is that the story he tells is honestly and horrifyingly true.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
44
19th
Wahlberg and Berg's third collaboration is a bad one; never really doing anything interesting with the events it's adapting. It's less efficient and more harebrained than Lone Survivor or Patriot's Day.
Rated 12 Oct 2016
40
35th
But this isn't really a movie about something as simple as an oil spill anyway. This is an unambiguous disaster flick of the first order. After the obligatory character introductions and the similarly obligatory oil-execs-ignoring-safety-rules-for-greedy-reasons preamble, the movie cuts loose with its main course of incredibly realistic fiery devastation. (pluggedin.com)
Rated 06 Oct 2016
60
28th
Stunning in places, especially the authentic recreation of the fire, but I was constantly wondering what I was looking at or what was happening. Character reactions were my only clue. Whalberg's character was the last to get off by jumping 100' into the water, but he didn't throw the female tech off first first.
Rated 26 Dec 2016
50
38th
One of those 'based on real events' stories about brave regular-Joe manly men (cue The Star-Spangled Banner) who save the day (kind of, not really), by all-American virtues. Passes the time as a disaster movie, but lacks originality and feels like something made to fill in the thematic slot in cinema release calendar.
Rated 01 Mar 2017
39
11th
blow outs and shit.. very hollow compared to the matter.
Rated 25 Oct 2016
50
23rd
Disappointing considering I enjoyed Berg's previous film. Standard popcorn flick with character's we don't care about. The foreshadowing with the daughter's project was well done though.
Rated 27 Dec 2016
55
43rd
A by the numbers disaster movie that Bergs makes sure you'll enjoy watching and saying "goddam!" while doing it. Wahlberg and Russell are solid leads, but seems like the director can't quite get to the bottom of it, instead going directly for the emotional punches given by the dramatization.
Rated 23 Sep 2017
4
72nd
A true based story where they don't add sugar coating and cliche action hero scenes. They pretty much just tell you the facts and how it went down - I like that. *Good.
Rated 06 May 2017
73
44th
Disaster movie is hamstrung by a laborious, technically pedantic first half, outlaying technical information incomprehensible to those audience members with no engineering bent; a simulated run through ala TITANIC would have been very helpful! Once the explosions start, the movie becomes extremely tense and involving; brilliant effects complemented by fine performances from Wahlberg and Russell. Given the cold and dry buildup, the gushing sentiment at the climax feels forced and out of place.
Rated 19 Jan 2017
59
23rd
A straightforward story told with efficiency and technical craft, DEEPWATER HORIZON's only humanity comes from its connection to the real events that inspired it. Narratively, the film doesn't attempt to accomplish anything that couldn't be done by a decent documentary, and even then leaves out most of the aftermath (i.e. one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history). Its affection for rank and file roughnecks is genuine, however--at least there its heart is in the right place.
Rated 01 Nov 2016
81
68th
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Rated 04 Mar 2017
70
50th
The Deepwater Horizon story does not start or finish with the heroics of the guys on the rig, and whilst the film deals with the loud bangs & explosions quite brilliantly, by the end it feels as if there is a massive part of the story untold; the attempts to cap the well, the pollution clean up, the political fallout and subsequent investigations. The use of credits and captions to explain the enormity of the tragedy in a minute or 2 seemed completely superficial and didn't do the story justice.
Rated 30 Sep 2016
72
47th
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Rated 28 Jan 2017
50
35th
Not bad.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
60
32nd
As a dramatisation, it's pretty good. It gets straight to the point and from what I can tell it all seems accurate, especially the terminology, and the set pieces were amazing. The action is pretty good too, with an impressive cast all bringing a great level of emotion to their roles. Sure it can seem a little heavy-handed but the company heads make a great villain, and it's at least a watchable film.
Rated 20 Oct 2017
5
18th
Interesting retelling of the experience of those on the Deepwater Horizon, Difficult to know how much is true and it tells little of the environmental impact of events but it works as a disaster movie.
Rated 07 Oct 2016
40
38th
As disaster flicks go, I thought this wasn't as good as "Sully", which I just saw (and I didn't like that either). During the "we're all chums, get to know us!" section of the movie, I had trouble with the accents or lingo or just all that noise over the dialogue. But it might be worth seeing just for the real-life couple at the end, which, shall we say, don't quite stand up beauty-wise to Wahlberg and Hudson.
Rated 01 May 2017
78
60th
not great but a very well shot disaster movie
Rated 08 Jan 2017
5
20th
I like that it deals with the deceased crew members in a respectful way (most of whom had likely nothing to do with the disaster), but I'd much rather watch a documentary with interviews and animations that actually explain stuff. In that sense I found this movie completely unnecessary.
Rated 05 Jan 2017
34
21st
It was less boring on the news.
Rated 26 Oct 2016
68
28th
It's a pretty formulaic disaster film but it executes that formula pretty well, hitting all the right emotional cues at all the right moments, and rmaps up tension in an effective way. It's high-budget visuals are impressive but I did start to suffer from "explosion fatigue" towards the end of the movie (oh my god, so many explosions!) Malkovich is a lot of fun as a greedy BP oil executive, and Mark Wahlberg... is Mark Wahlberg, performing exactly as how you'd expect him to.
Rated 19 May 2017
55
34th
I like a good old-fashioned disaster movie, but I found this to be quite lacking. A The Poseidon Adventure (1972) or Titanic (1997) this is not. Those were actual movies; this is just a dramatisation of the events. Nothing happens for the first 45 minutes or so, and it's super boring. And then shit goes down, and it's okay. It looked fine and all, but I didn't really care about the characters or what was happening to them. It's not a bad movie, but it's nothing special either.
Rated 27 Jul 2017
54
63rd
A straight retelling of the story rather than anything special
Rated 20 Oct 2016
56
35th
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Rated 31 May 2019
90
79th
I really fucking love this movie. It's so intense and enjoyable. The acting, directing, and writing is all really good. Would definitely recommend it.
Rated 31 Jul 2019
20
18th
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Rated 21 Jul 2020
62
58th
The climax is no match for the terrific build-up, including Malkovich and Russell on fine form.
Rated 08 Jan 2021
100
91st
The film tells the true story of the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that became the face of an ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The infamous British oil rig caught fire and exploded during drilling operations on April 20, 2010. 11 crew members were killed and caused the largest oil spill in United States history.
Rated 22 Jan 2022
97
81st
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Rated 12 Oct 2022
62
41st
Visually spectacular and intense 'disaster section', but the you get the feeling that the movie only skims the surface of the real world story, and along with some pacing issues for most of the first hour Deepwater Horizon is worth a watch but falls short of what it could have been.
Rated 09 May 2023
82
59th
Deepwater Horizon is appropriately chaotic, informative, and exceptionally well made.

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