good job

Rating: 8/10 (1 October 2016)

what might seem like a throw back to the big disaster movies from the 70's, is instead a thought provoking serious study about what happens when the almighty bottom line comes before everything else. and unlike those 70's movies, there are no back stories here, just the meat and potatoes of what went wrong on the bp rig in the gulf of Mexico and the tragedy that follows. because the job is falling behind schedule and bp is losing money every day, corners are cut and when the tests of the integrity of the drilling fail all hell breaks loose. why many more people weren't killed is a miracle. as usual mark whalburg is very good and kurt Russell is fine, also. this is a very sturdy effort by peter berg. he's very good with technical details and respectful of the men and women who risk their lives to provide us with the oil we so desperately seem to need. I am not being political, here. we are just very dependent on it.