Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

A disaster movie about a disaster that really happened. In his film "Deepwater Horizon", director Peter Berg adopts a documentary approach and takes his time getting to the big bang and the movie is all the better for it. This is a movie that never exploits either its subject or its characters while still ticking all the necessary boxes and benefits considerably from a first-rate cast, (Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, a terrific John Malkovitch, Kate Hudson etc), all at the top of their game; no mean feat when the real star of the picture is an exploding oil rig, (special effects, cinematography, editing, sound recording are all top notch). As disaster movies go, this is highly effective and in the end, very moving.

How does a disaster like Deepwater Horizon happen? This movie won't help you get that, but it might prompt you to look it up on Wikipedia and give you a greater appreciation of the risks in drilling that oil that runs your car. I am not a big action-movie fan but I found this movie interesting. One does care about the character played well by Mark Wahlberg and his reunion with his too-pretty-to-be-believed family, complete with dinosaur tooth, is indeed moving. I also liked the performance of Kurt Russell, who has aged since I saw him last in a film, but remains a very good-looking man. He creates an interesting persona of a safety professional whose vigilance extends beyond his job description. "Did you floss today," he asks a character, and how right he is to inquire!Many of the other characters in the movie come across as caricatures, including John Malkovich as a BP bigwig with an exaggerated Louisiana drawl. (The ending credits tell us that he was indicted and acquitted of manslaughter...a few more lines on this point would have been greatly appreciated. But, as elsewhere in this film, there's always Wikipedia.) Unsurprisingly, the special effects here are impressive. Fire in all of its forms is a terrifying thing and the horror is brought to life here. I'm glad that the movie named and showed pictures of the 11 crew members who perished in the conflagration. According to Wikipedia, their bodies were never recovered. I wish this film had provided additional credits on what, if anything, has been learned, so that the biggest oil-industry disaster of all time won't be exceeded in the future.

From the evil cooperate leaders to the hardworking American hero, to watching the American flag against a background of a burning structure. Typical pandering to America movie.

After watching a couple really awful movies this week I needed a movie like this one. This one I truly enjoyed. Based on a true story so it always gives the movie a bit more punch. Everybody remembers the terrible tragedy that occurred that day. Some would think it's a human tragedy but to me it's an environmental catastrophe. Millions of liters of oil devastating marine wildlife and this for decades. The movie doesn't mention anything about that, but it still remains a good movie to watch. Just to have an idea on what happens on an oil platform like that. That the big oil concerns like BP are faulty in every way is obvious. That they will never face consequences doesn't bother anybody. That's just the way it is. The mighty lobbyists win again. Mark Wahlberg gives us a good performance, as well as the other actors. The catastrophe scenes look like they are all real so for that the movie gets big credits. The story is poignant and will make everybody think about the disaster that happened there. A good catastrophe movie, even for the people that are not really into this kind of movies.