Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Deepwater Horizon Review

Sometimes a movie comes out that after seeing it I really want to love, but the more I think about it, the more I struggle to find something to latch onto. For me, Deepwater Horizon is one of those movies.

Deepwater Horizon is a movie about the oil spill and explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that took place back in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Dylan O'Brien, Kate Hudson, and Gina Rodriguez. Mark Wahlberg plays Mike Williams, an oil rig worker, that is sent to the Deepwater Horizon to work for twenty-one days. When Mike arrives on the rig with Jimmy Harrell (Russell) and Andrea Fleytas (Rodriguez), they start to realize something isn't right. A crew that was in charge of running some tests on the drill, end up leaving the rig without performing these important tests. The call for them to leave without performing the tests came from the higher ups like Donald Vidrine (Malkovich). When Mike and Jimmy confront Donald, he lets Mike and Jimmy perform some tests and with the results convinces them to start drilling. Soon disasters strikes and the crew on the rig must work together to reach safety.

What bothered me about Deepwater Horizon was the pace at which things moved. I felt that the beginning the movie spent a lot of time allowing the audience to get to know the characters and I just wanted to get to the action. Then once it got to the action everything happened so quickly and then the movie ended. There were so many characters that emotionally I never got invested in any of them. I was a tad invested in Wahlberg's character but the ending wrapped up so quickly I didn't have time to get emotional.

I was impressed with the action in Deepwater Horizon. The effects used made it look real and made me feel like the actors were in actual danger. There was only a couple of times where I could tell that the flames were actually computer generated. Kurt Russell's character gets some pretty graphic damage done to his face and the make-up used on him looked incredible.

Overall I thought Deepwater Horizon was a solid movie. I never got emotionally connected to the characters like I was expecting to. I thought the action was good and definitely deserves to be seen on the biggest screen possible. I don't regret seeing Deepwater Horizon, I was just expecting a little more.

3 out of 5 Stars

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