finally!

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2017)

Matt Damon (here disguised as Mark Wahlberg) saves an ethnic chick from a flaming inferno.
I liked it.
The trailers make it look like an action film, but it's nothing like that; it's a "disaster movie", where the background, actions of the various players, and events are more important than the acting. Here is a simple test to determine if you will like Deepwater Horizon: "if you had to watch Titanic again, and you get to pick whether to watch only the first half, or only the last half, which one would you choose?" If you pick the second half, you will love Deepwa... DH.
DH is all about how a bunch of idiots from BP (and some friends of theirs) managed to mess up a simple enough operation, and wound up causing $41Billion of losses just to save a few bucks on a couple extra days of routine work (which would have netted them something in the region of X billion dollars SOLELY IN THE DAYS when the hole needed to be plugged).
Mark "Matt Damon" Wahlberg is a nondescript, hillbilly-speaking engineer which has a non-relevant role in the story; he says a couple things, then goes to take a shower. When stuff blows up, he saves the girl by being the Hero(tm), in one of two completely unnecessary scenes which holliwoodize the film.
John Malkovich is the BP aforementioned idiot, who causes the loss of the rig. No spoiler, as this is evident from page 1.
Many, many supporting actors doing a fine job.
The real spectacle is the set, with the rig going on fire, seems absurdly real. The film is a bit too long, there is NO need at all for the initial half hour (Wahlberg's wife establishes that Wahlberg has a reason to live other than, you know, get the f* out of a burning oil rig), but once the explodin' stuff starts happening, you will be in a trance.
I would recommend DH to .. just about anyone over 18. It's not Michael Bay enough for kids, but it will do for couples and dudes. Very cool, strong film that knows what it wants to do (and i'm 99% sure those 3 crap scenes were forced in by some idiot producer).
My vote: 8/10