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Rating: 2/10 (11 January 2017)

So I gave it an extra star. Other than the 'big boom' ... all I took away was ... the 'hint' at ... a poorly maintained rig ... by a undisciplined, poorly trained crew that seemed to be more interested in being comics than doing their jobs. For example ... when those valve bonnets started to give out ... they should have evacuated. There was a conspicuous absence of alarms going off? Of course I've had experience with machinery ... hollyweed has not.
Then there seems to be a distancing from BP by bringing up the ... 'it's BP's oil well ... but not their rig'. The phones don't work? The monitors go 'blue' and this thing was still in service? US ships (Oil Tankers for example) have the ABS and USCG regulating them. Do these rigs have anyone (standards) to answer too? There is a on-the-fly 'hand off' meet on the helio deck? That nobody can hear because of the noise? The bang-boom-whoosh CG was good and the 'Die Hard' like scramble to survive was entertaining enough.
There is an entertainment value to this movie ... so, $6? OK. Still ... the the 'oil spill data' at the end was bogus. There was a complete absence of the 'dispersant' BP, tried to hide, used to dummy up the spill numbers and - in the process - poisoned the gulf of Mexico? Oil spills are measured on the surface. So ... braking the oil down and getting it to 'mix' with the water keeps this number ... and the penalties ... down.
Whether is is BP or Transocean ... it was still a matter of protecting their collective 'bottom' lines. This did not have to happen.