Overrated and overhyped

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This is not my typical movie, so it took me a while to get around to watching it. I am usually in the sci fi and action genres. I was not disappointed. A great story about Everyman heroes and corporate greed.The catastrophic failure of the oil rig was perfectly portrayed and left me on the edge of my seat. And when the hero, Mike, finally reunited with his family, I felt like crying for joy with them.It is an important story to tell. There should be more light shed on coroporate greed, especially when it leads to harming people and our environment.

Deepwater Horizon was the largest oil rig in the world and had been digging the deepest well in history beneath the Gulf of Mexico. The crew were shutting down the exploratory Macondo Well which potentially had a high yield of oil when disaster struck. Patrick Morgan, who was an assistant driller on the Deepwater Horizon rig, said of the movie before it was released: "I just don't want to see politics and political correctness and all that crap play into it." In the end, the movie rightly focused on the tragedy of the explosion and honouring the 11 men who lost their lives.Despite some cumbersome schmaltz early on, the film settles on the story, precisely documenting the stages of the disaster, and accompanied by a fast dialogue that, which feels authentic with tossed around shorthand and lingo. Tension rises with clever editing and with each step of mechanical failure. The film achieves hugely on a special effects level, but as with many real-life films, there are some inconsistencies in the factual telling which are worth noting. It was years of cutting corners, not one careless mistake, that caused the explosion. The villain of the piece, BP Executive Donald Vidrine, played by John Malkovich in a gumbo-thick Louisiana drawl, in reality was not to blame. Vidrine spoke by phone to a BP engineer in Houston with regard to the problematic 'negative test' which proved fatal. Government investigations concluded that it was his BP superiors in Houston who were largely giving the orders for the crew to get work completed on the well, which was 43 days behind schedule. BP's company man Vidrine certainly didn't expect that his decisions that day would lead to an inferno. The filmmakers could have found a better explanation for why intelligent people sometimes make such terrible decisions but this was an action movie with someone to blame. In spite of this, several oversights and missteps were made by BP, and Halliburton, an American multinational corporation, and the Swiss company Transocean. U.S. federal regulators who supervised drilling in the Gulf of Mexico signed off on Transoecean's plans at every stage, but this would not feature in the telling and neither would the fact that all oil rigs were not fit for purpose. The blowout preventer, which failed to stem the flow of oil when the wellhead erupted and is widely used throughout the industry, is likely to be declared not fit for purpose. All in all, an engrossing film and an affecting drama on human folly and obsession.

Based on fact, this was truly fascinating. Director Peter Bergh had an interesting vision for the film with excellent photography, and great attention to detail. The sound was also incredible. The film is an absolute masterpiece - from the great cast to the mind blowing visual effects. The music was awesome and highly effective. The build up to the disaster was very well done with tension almost from the start. Once the action started, it grabbed hold of you and never let go, as it plunged the viewer deeper into the "well from hell" with every frame. It was simply spectacular and one of my favorite disaster movies.

The movie is great as I can relate it to myself and my working environment. Since it is a dramatisation of a real accident, the director couldn't add extra things to viewer's taste. Many factual errors are there. It would have been better if they would have done some more research by some experienced personnel working in Offshore Oil rigs for the technical knowledge to make the script.