Countless Explosions & American Heroics

Rating: 7/10 (30 August 2017)

(Flash Review)
We all know the real story and this movie put you right in the thick 'oil' of it. The first half builds up the characters and their backstory so in the second half the movie can tug at your heartstrings as you watch them try to handle and survive the explosions and endless fires. Very good and realistic production and effects. It was really believable. The script was a little too narrowly focused. It is mainly about the worker's heroics and their escape. I would have liked to learn a bit more about why the drill failed. You get a little bit in a couple scenes but they could have added more time to flush that out more in my opinion. They also pitted BP vs the Deepwater crew as BP the cost-conscience big oil company vs the downhome American blokes. My understanding was BP was most at fault but Deepwater wasn't totally innocent of fault but this doesn't claim to be true to life so can't fault it too much. It was good and entertaining and emotional; an above average Hollywood blockbuster movie.