Peter Berg's most thrilling and emotional movie yet

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2017)

Peter Berg's "Deepwater Horizon" is a not only a movie on a great suspense level but it is also a movie of deep emotion and sadness with some aspects of the movie in which Berg uses to his advantage in order to make this into a very effective movie which is his best movie that I have seen since his 2003 film "The Rundown". The movie stars Mark Wahlberg in one of his very best performances as Mike Williams who is the chief electrical technician on an offshore oil rig called none other than the "Deepwater Horizon". The opening scenes of the movie are probably the most emotional that I have seen where he is talking with his wife Felicia (Kate Hudson) and his daughter (Stella Allen) when he knows after he says goodbye to them it could be the last time he may ever see them. Once they get to the rig the person in charge of operations on the rig is a man named Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell) whose job is to make sure that things are going smoothly at all times. Then Mike ends up meeting a man by the name of Vidrine (John Malkovich). As the film progresses things end up getting more suspenseful and the person who is watching the film ends up being on the edge of their seat because the oil pipe tests aren't indicating anything good and then all hell breaks loose and the rig is engulfed in flames. The movie was based on true events which makes me feel like while watching the movie that I was actually with the characters during the explosion. The most effective scenes are in the end of the movie where no words are spoken just shocked and saddened facial expressions and music which to me personally makes it one of the most emotional endings in a movie that I have ever seen along with "Schindler's List" (1993), "The Green Mile" (1999), and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). This was a very good movie and I am hoping to see more from Peter Berg in the coming days and years, this is one of the best movies of 2016.