Went into this movie expecting some good acting and nothing more, but after already fifteen minutes I knew there was so much more to this movie than Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell crawling trough some flames.
The conversation at the beginning between Mike Williams, played by Mark Wahlberg, his wife and his daughter really shows what you can expect during the first hour of the movie: good characters with really good conversations. It just feels real when Mike enters the Deepwater Horizon-platform and does a little talk with everyone he encounters. It really gets you invested in the story before everything, literally, blows up.
Eventually you are on the edge of your seat when everything goes down. Great explosions, good shots and ok sounds at this point were enough for me to keep interested until the very last second.
A couple of minor nitpicks are the scenes created in the pump line, they really didn't need those scenes to raise the tension, and the fact that there was the "America!-scene". Why was it there? To show how good America is? Really didn't need to be there.
Overal great movie that absolutely has a place in my top-10 of 2016.
Review by DeletedBlockedParentSpoilers2016-10-12T14:46:19Z
Asked for an action movie, got so much more!
Went into this movie expecting some good acting and nothing more, but after already fifteen minutes I knew there was so much more to this movie than Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell crawling trough some flames.
The conversation at the beginning between Mike Williams, played by Mark Wahlberg, his wife and his daughter really shows what you can expect during the first hour of the movie: good characters with really good conversations. It just feels real when Mike enters the Deepwater Horizon-platform and does a little talk with everyone he encounters. It really gets you invested in the story before everything, literally, blows up.
Eventually you are on the edge of your seat when everything goes down. Great explosions, good shots and ok sounds at this point were enough for me to keep interested until the very last second.
A couple of minor nitpicks are the scenes created in the pump line, they really didn't need those scenes to raise the tension, and the fact that there was the "America!-scene". Why was it there? To show how good America is? Really didn't need to be there.
Overal great movie that absolutely has a place in my top-10 of 2016.