The World's Most Boring Work Day With a Couple Explosions at the End

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2017)

Deepwater Horizon is about the drilling rig that exploded in 2010, causing the worst oil spill in US history.
The movie is, despite being quite a big deal when the event happened, actually rather boring. It starts off with the characters all doing their job. And that's fine because we need to develop these characters, right? But the problem is is that it spends half it's total run time doing so. Meaning we get to see the main characters doing their job for a full 50 minutes before anything of real significance happens. So for the first half it's just kind of a terrible movie. It's so incredibly boring with nothing really going for it.
Even when stuff starts happening though, it's still kind of boring. Sure everything's blowing up, but it never seemed like the characters were in any real peril. I know that they were in real life, but when it seemed like all they had to do was jump into the water and swim to the nearby boat, it didn't really seem like what was happening was really that perilous. Sure there were a few scenes that were kind of epic, as in the last 10 or so minutes, but that's not enough to carry an entire movie. That, and I was probably still almost asleep from the first half.
Despite this, the make-up was pretty good, and so were the special effects. Visually, it is a pretty good movie, but as a whole not so much.
Overall Deepwater Horizon was boring and uninteresting. It did a poor job of portraying how much danger the main characters were in, and while I know that in real life they were, the movie really didn't do it justice. In end I wouldn't recommend this movie.