A bit of a sinker

Rating: Null/10 (9 October 2016)

First off, I want to give my condolences to the families and the people affected by this disaster.
Alright, now for my review:
I honestly walked into this film expecting to rate it a 4 or even 5 stars. The trailer promised everything that a good disaster film would have. It seemed to me that Peter Berg's "Deepwater Horizon" would be this generations "Poseidon's Adventure". And while the film did promise in the technical area, with visual and audio effects, it lacked in almost everything else,from characters we can connect to, to the basic form of entertainment.
Now, as i said before, the technical and special effects in this film are fantastic, and could possibly(and should) receive an Oscar nomination for them. But for all the awesome effects,there is a less then awesome counterpart. The first half of the film is extremely slow, and attempts to allow the audience to get to know the characters and the situation. I've never disliked slow starts to films like these, because i often know that there will be a rewarding payoff. But there was no payoff. After the disaster begins to unfold, the film turns to mindless action and effects to tell the story. It becomes very boring because the amount of action portrayed on the screen is of sloppy quality and lazy film making. It all too much felt like a Michael Bay film. Explosions and disasters are going off at a rapid pace, and without time to either empathize with the characters or to even care about them.
The poor juggling of multiple stories of the different characters is one of the major downfalls to this picture. There are far too many "in depth" characters to actually understand any of them. And, when there is far too much of something, we seem to not care as much. The success of any Disaster film(such as "Poseidon's Adventure", "Titanic" or even "Independence Day") doesn't only lie in the disaster itself, but in the development and connection of the characters experiencing that disaster. And the situation in "Deepwater Horizon" is all but worsened when you realize that the characters portrayed aren't just characters, but real people. In seems to make "entertainment" out of these real people's death, and attempts to cover up this with an admittingly emotional funeral like tribute at the end of the film, with the real peoples faces and names on the screen.
Before i wrap this review up, i realised that i never acknowledged the actors in this film. The cast was stunning, and they live up to their reputations, and the likes of Mark Whalberg, Dylan O'Brien, John Malkovich, and an all time favourite of mine, Kurt Russell, help make this film more enjoyable.
In the end, "Deepwater Horizon" fails to create any emotion or entertainment, and tries to cover up its shallow characters and "entertainment" out of real peoples depth with special effects and a somewhat patronizing funeral tribute. If there was any justice, "Deepwater Horizon" would sink to the bottom of the box office.