Solid and well made disaster movie

Rating: 8/10 (3 October 2016)

2010 was not the best year to be British, given all the poor headlines associated with us/our footballers/our supermodels generated.
BP's involvement in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, fire and resultant catastrophic oil spill in April of that year was no doubt not our finest hour. Certainly not according to US news coverage who, rightly angered and asking the right questions, pointed their fingers too squarely at the B(ritish) part of the companies acronym.
Peter Berg's account of the immediate disaster wisely avoids this and ends being an unexpectedly fair and even handed film.
Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell turn up for the manly rescue duties and turn in very dependable, muscular turns in a solid film.