The after taste of this above average action movie is bitter because it is whitewashing the worst ever oil disaster by NOT EVER mentioning the impact on the environment.

Rating: 5/10 (25 January 2019)

Just looked upon as an action/drama movie it is reasonably good, because the stunts and special effects are pretty impressive and the sentiments (violins, crying houswives and children) about the loss of 11 people is done with much effective melodrama towards the end. Great photography and editing and quite good acting performances by Kurt Russel and John Malkovich. Mark Wahlberg, as ever, just looks plain dumb, but for his standards he acts good as well. So just judging it as an action/drama it will make pass the time enjoyably, without ever getting really bored.
The biggest criticism I have is what this movie does NOT show. What is not being shown? What is not even mentioned one single time? The devastating permanent impact on the environment. None of that is ever mentioned. That is ridiculous and whitewashing the actual events as they have happened. As if this was only a human drama and not also the worst environmental oil disaster in recorded history. I have got a bitter after taste because of that whitewashing of this historical environmental disaster.