Based on True events could have been more

Rating: 6/10 (21 June 2017)

Deepwater Horizon is apparently based on the true real life events of The Deepwater Horizon oil spill which occurred in 2010. This was both a financial disaster for BP, and an ongoing environmental catastrophe. Reportedly an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled out into the Gulf of Mexico over the 87 days that it took to plug the hole, leaving the sea a blackened wasteland of dead and diseased.
Based upon real people Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) routinely boards the rig, leaves his wife (Kate Hudson) and daughter on shore. On board the Deepwater Horizon, Mike and Mr. Jimmy (Kurt Russell) bode ill tidings when they discover that the departing drill team left without doing a safety check on the hole. This film is entertaining at certain moments but as a whole, one must be invested in the type of film this is, which is a real based true events disaster film. With a large budget of over $110 million and only making over $120 million worldwide, this film did not make as much as the studios hoped for, or was not praised as much either, as they intended some Oscar nominations. Overall Deepwater Horizon has its moments but as a whole is quite boring, which is shameful because the film is quite well made and we can notice much research was done. The main problem is that they waited a few years too long to make and release this film, which is a reason for its flopping at the box office. As a rewatch 06/17/20 opinions remain same. The film starts off relatively slow as it builds then gets quite engaging. Overall the story as tragic of a disaster as it has been doesn't quite provide such an interesting tale.