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  Review by shay ★★★★ 4

  when the credits started rolling in and mark wahlberg's name showed up my mom was like "hold on, was that not matt damon?" and i looked into a non existent camera like i was on the office

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 7

  Not the best film of 2016, but certainly the most surprising one in that, you know, it's actually really good.

  Going into a film like this with your thinking cap on is a mistake and in this case it's no different. Deepwater Horizon is as straightforward as it gets. It presents a fictionalised reality we have gotten to know so well by now. No real characters, but relatable stereotypes that behave exactly how you expect them to. Plot- and characterwise it never leaves 'been there, done that' territory.

  The thing is, however, that as cliché as most of this is, it is an empathic cliché. By building up the entire first hour like a comfortably spread bed, the inevitability of…

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★★★★ 20

  In which two-thirds of Hollywood's greatest family steal the summer blockbuster that wasn't?

  Baffling, in a summer of crap, underwhelming and under-performing blockbusters, that Deepwater Horizon was slung on halfway between summer and Christmas, especially considering how much they spent on this bloody thing.

  After about 40 minutes, I was wondering where the hell the $165 million they spent on this went. I knew that everything was going to go mental in the second half, obviously, but not to the extent that they would end up spending that amount on the chaos that ensued. Yet when I saw the last half of this film, I could see where pretty much every penny went because it's jaw-dropping stuff.

  I'm rarely impressed…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 1

  Sufficiently gnarly once the well breaks, until then a pretty by-the-numbers slobs vs. snobs story of pragmatic boots-on-the-ground working folk clearly endangered by money-grubbing suits. Wish this had been James Cameron's SULLY instead of Peter Berg's.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½

  “Hollywood has finally found someone to compete with Nazis for the title of ultimate movie villains: Oil executives. In Deepwater Horizon, the blue-collar crew of an off-shore rig battles malfunctioning equipment, unpredictable weather, blow outs, explosions, and fires. But all those dangers seem to pale in comparison to the threat posed by a bunch of starchy white men. In their uniform of button-down shirts and khaki pants, they’re the walking embodiment of unfeeling corporate greed.

  In the wake of the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon, much of the news coverage centered on the catastrophic environmental disaster; oil flowed from the broken well for 87 days, leaking 210 million gallons into the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon puts the…

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  Review by CJ Probst ★★½ 13

  I’m not particularly excited about Hollywood feeling the need to make a feature film about every single story to get any sort of news coverage. And as far as the BP oil spill goes, this film covers what is probably the least interesting aspect of that immense and far reaching disaster. Do we get an examination of the people on the front line dealing with the obliterated wildlife and toxic cleanup efforts, trying to minimize the ecological fallout from the disaster? Or are we given a humanistic introspective showing the incalculable economic costs to the misfortunate Americans that were financially ruined from this SNAFU? Nope. If we are being honest, what we have here is 100 minutes of extraneous and…

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  Review by Ian Curran ★★★

  The first 60 minutes are a slow build of exposition and tension that culminates in a truly terrifying disaster set piece.

  Unfortunately like a lot of disaster films—especially ones based on true events—it loses a lot of stream following the disastrous incident. This is completely understandable: you can’t find entertainment, intrigue, or excitement in the consequences of real world disasters—that would be disrespectful storytelling.

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  Review by Anya Bo 🌹 ★★★★ 1

  WOW!!!! THAT WAS... INTENSE! the beginning of the movie was slow, but it got really interesting real quick, the actors and actresses' performances were perfect, it made me feel like I was on that rig struggling to save myself and the cinematography was breathtaking.

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  Review by KMOKLER ★★★★½ 6

  I've heard some pretty underwhelming reviews for this and quite honestly, I don't get it! This movie has the acting, action, direction and suspense you'd expect from a true story based Peter Berg film (like the brilliant Lone survivor) I was on the edge of my seat as well as emotional when this film ended, 2016's been a disappointing year for movies (despite sing street, civil war, deadpool and hell or high water, feel free to comment anything you think I missed out there) so it's easily said, this is one of the best films I've seen this year, the fall should finally bring us the great movies we've been waiting for.
  Patriots day should be just as well made as these two films.

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★½

  Telling the story of what would become one of the worst ecological disasters in US history, Peter Berg's "Deepwater Horizon" is a drama that is at its best when it observes the tensions between greed, the individual, and nature's fury. That depth, though not explored in enough detail to make the film great, undergirds a well-assembled and often riveting piece of works that functions both as an epic of the working individual and a cautionary tale where Mother Earth is not something with which to toy.

  Revolving around the 2010 Gulf of Mexico-based oil platform fire that took the lives of workers and let loose millions of gallons of crude into the sea, Berg's film follows the action from the…

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★ 4

  "That oil is a monster, like those mean old dinosaurs they used to come from" - uneducated child whose drug habit I'll have to support with my taxes some day (that's my attempt at writing the sort of line that is in a Peter Berg film)

  - Scavenger Hunt #50: boxd.it/2RxoK
  Task 5: "Watch a film featuring my homeboy/love of my life Dylan O'Brien"

  You know you're in Louisiana because a pelican dies.

  From director, and hater of women and transgendered persons, Peter Berg, and noted shithead hate crime committer Mark Wahlberg, comes Deepwater Horizon, a film from Berg/Wahlberg's Patriotism Retcon series which includes films such a Patriot's Day and Lone Survivor. The movie is a dramatized account of the…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★

  much preferred bay's take on nightmarish collective chaos & grunts vs. suits earlier this year, but watching marky mark think he's giving a tom hanks, Captain Phillips caliber performance was endlessly amusing