Good movie but not emotionally draining like The Lone Survivor.

Rating: 6/10 (5 October 2016)

Based on a New York Times article, "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours", this film attempt to memorialize the tragedy in red, white, and blue unfortunately speaks to the slender nature of its source, in as much as its plot is essentially nil. Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) routinely boards the rig, leaving 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. Things turn from bad to worse as BP's Donald Vidrine (John Malkovich), aggrieved at being behind schedule and over budget, eschews the necessary concrete test and excuses a failed systems test in order to proceed with further drilling. Pretty soon, he looks like a jackass when the whole rig explodes in his face.
And after that the film is just Wahlberg running around in a frenzy trying to get people off the rig and because of that they forgot to attached the characters to the viewers that the viewers didn't care anymore to watch the actual video of Deepwater Horizon after the film.
3 over 5. Competently made, more explosion and intense but not a pretty picture.