The True Story Behind The Largest Oil Spill Incident in History

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2016)

This movie was having very slow pace for the first part which took around 45 minutes. Peter Berg, the director whose works included The Rundown, Friday Night Lights, Hancock, and Lone Survivor, seemed to be a very detailed oriented person and I think he wanted to make sure that the events prior to the incident were mostly captured. The thing is, those parts seemed to be very technical and for people who are not accustomed to works at oil rig (offshore), the scenes became too long and resulted to a little bit boredom. As someone who is working at the back office for companies in oil & gas industry, I was personally interested in seeing this part, but I do not think the general audience would enjoy it.
However, the second part of the movie when the incident started to be shown, the pace of the movie suddenly become so fast, and the tense feeling totally crept our mind. My feeling when seeing this part is that people would forget about the slow pace in the beginning and totally enjoyed the rush, the scary moments, the sadness, the relief, the dramatic & touching moments and so many other feelings later.
I also loved the special effects and the sound effects of this movie. The creation of Deepwater Horizon seemed to be very real life. The makeup effect also was very believable. We also would be enjoying the performance of John Malkovich portraying a BP executive who just want to save some money (though I understand that BP also released a statement highlighting that the events in this movie seemed to be only putting the blame on BP when it was due to multiple companies fault). I believe the moral of the story here is that you can never be too cheap when dealing with safety, especially in a high risk environment such as an oil rig.
So for those of you who enjoy watching movies of accident based on true events with good special effects, sound effects and dramatic moments, then this movie would certainly be a good choice. But if you want to have high paced full action movies from beginning till end, then you have to be patient for a while in the beginning before you can enjoy it. As for people who are working in the oil & gas industry, I would recommend to watch this movie to just have our minds opened (especially for back office people).
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