Hold on to your life raft

Rating: 9/10 (1 October 2016)

Director Peter Berg ("Lone Survivor," " Friday Night Lights") once again partners with Mark Wahlberg to light up the screen, sky and ocean for the retelling of the 2010 offshore drilling explosion deemed "the worst oil spill in US history". Berg makes an camera appearance as the crew shift takes place upon the ridge. Mr. Jimmy (the always terrific Kurt Russell) and Mike Williams (Wahlberg - again at his heroic best) feels somethings wrong at the shift change, especially with several BP big wigs aboard, particularly Vidrine (John Malkovich - successfully pulling of an accent). Berg is terrific at filling time and space with rapid dialogue, thus making the audience wait for the action. Gina Rodriguez ("Jane the Virgin") is Andrea, top crew person who created the floating ridge, while back home Mike's wife Felicia (Kate Hudson - we can never get enough of Ms. Hudson) awaits. Special Effects, Sound, Visual stimulation, Cinematography (Enrique Chediak - "127 Hours") and more are all on fire here (sometime literally), pushing the viewing experience to their limits. If there is a fault here, it lies in the initial camera work that is to close to the actual drilling making it impossible to visually understand what one is looking at. Writing credits are in abundance here, bringing the story and lives of the on screen characters to realistic life. "Deepwater Horizon" is an action packed film for all. While these type of films don't always get recognized at Awards times, this one maybe break that curse.