Reviewing “Deepwater Horizon”

Like every good disaster movie before it, Deepwater Horizon introduces you to a lot of people you care about, ratchets up your tension until the explosion, and then it’s pretty much a standard disaster survival experience – if you count a gigantic rig made of steel and concrete exploding while oil burns on the rig and the ocean to be standard. And since this is based on a true story, it makes what happens worse, because they aren’t “characters”, they’re real people who are facing a very real, very terrifying disaster with little hope of survival, particularly because they’re 30 minutes out, minimum, from all rescue ships and helicopters.   [Read more...]

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