In “The Burning Sea,” which is your basic, everyday Norwegian oil-rig disaster thriller, Stian (Henrik Bjelland), a rig worker stationed on a drilling platform that’s about to collapse, must descend into the bowels of the rig to shut down a well that can’t be reached remotely. As...
(Budget: $156 million; worldwide gross: $122.6 million) This 2016 Mark Wahlberg movie dramatizes theoil-rig disasterthat killed 11, and caused whatSmithsonian said is "recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history."Despite the high stakes, the film underperformed at the box office, tho...
For when the disaster finally comes, it comes in the blink of an eye, escalating from an onslaught of oil to a tumultuous explosion that rips through the station, tosses men around like matchsticks, and ignites everything that can burn and even a few things that can’t. Strangely, it’s...
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history. By all accounts, it would have been far easier forDeepwater Horizon,Peter Berg’s surprising retelling of the BP oil rig disaster of 2010 – to ...
Movie Rating: (As spectacular a disaster movie as you would expect from Dante Lam, 'The Rescue' unfortunately lacks compelling human drama to complement what it packs in tense, gripping action) Review by Gabriel Chong You might also like: ...
(seemingly) uncaring middle-men like Lie by insisting that thousands of imperiled oil rig workers “have the right to know” that they might soon blow up. “The Burning Sea” may ultimately be too uptight for its own good, but there’s enough here to satisfy disaster aficionados who’ve ...
a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster. Expanding the parameters of genre, "Margin Call" is a riveting examination of the human components of a subject too often relegated to partisan issues of black and ...
Start to finish? With no hesitation? You have to go back to 1998’sArmageddon, that cartoonish disaster flick with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck about deep-sea oil rig workers sent into outer space to destroy a planet-killing meteorite far more goofy fun than it had any right to be. ...
“Deepwater Horizon” isn’t really interested in telling a comprehensive story about the enormous catastrophe of the now infamous oil rig. Instead, it just wants to be a nerve-wracking disaster picture, complete with sympathetic victims and survivors, numerous explosions, a tense escape sequence,...
a living there. It chronicles the personal and financial struggles of the shrimpers, the fishermen, and the oil rig workers who lost their jobs due to the spill. Their stories are told through interviews and footage captured in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, as well as years later....