DEEPWATER HORIZON (2016)

This is the movie about the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana in April 2010. the worst oil rig disaster in American History.

It's is an amazing action film as it is presented. It is not a glossy film about the disaster but a good action flick.

We all know the plot and as the movie begins in introducing its characters (Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez), we hear hints and foreshadowing of the disaster to come.

There is oil rig talk but nothing that an audience can't handle. The first half the movie moves through two tests and the reasons that the BP managers order the well brought online, ignoring the tests.

Then the well blows and the action never stops. Between mud blowouts and then oil and natural gas, fire, the rig itself falling apart and people trying to evacuate, you won't stop watching. It is harrowing. The rig is large. The operations complex. The movie doesn't explain the parts in boring monologue but shows the action moving around the rig as the well beneath it fails.

So when you get the chance, get this movie and watch it.

There is no happy ending: Eleven men died on the platform that night. The end of the film shows the real people and where they are now.

The two BP bosses who ordered the actions were arrested and charged with manslaughter but the charges were dropped and they never answered for their decision in public. That's shameful.

BP, Transocean, and Halliburton are paying large court actions against them.

I just saw this and it's really good. Great review by the way, you covered it all.