Not a bad movie technically, but feels disrespectful towards the real people involved in the tragedy

Rating: 6/10 (14 January 2017)

I have very mixed feelings about this movie. I wonder how the families of the deceased in this tragedy feel about the dramatization of the oil spill. Because I'm pretty sure the average moviegoer did not see the movie as a means to paying respect to these dead. This is a disaster movie with explosions, and that's why the studio thought it would be worth spending 110+ million dollars. The movie feels a lot like "Final Destination", without the supernatural elements (the levels of violence are pretty much the same, even though Deepwater Horizon is shockingly rated PG-13). The "Final Destination" feel would be fine if this was fiction, but to have the memories of real people turned into a spectacle that works like the 6th installment of a horror franchise is not exactly tasteful. The performances are OK, direction is OK, all around an OK movie if you can ignore the morality issues (which I can't).