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Deepwater Horizon
Directed by
Peter Berg
PG-13
2016
1h 47m
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A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in history.
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Cast of Deepwater Horizon
Mark Wahlberg
Mike Williams
Kurt Russell
Jimmy Harrell
John Malkovich
Donald Vidrine
Gina Rodriguez
Andrea Fleytas
Dylan O'Brien
Caleb Holloway
Kate Hudson
Felicia Williams
J.D. Evermore
Dewey Revette
Ethan Suplee
Jason Anderson
David Maldonado
Capt. Curt Kuchta
Henry Frost
Shane Roshto
Jeremy Sande
Adam Weise
Brad Leland
Robert Kaluza
Douglas M. Griffin
Landry
Joe Chrest
David Sims
James DuMont
Patrick O'Bryan
Chris Ashworth
Coast Guard Commander
Rob Steinberg
BP Rep
Peter Berg
Mr. Skip
Anthony "Ace" Thomas
Paula's Husband
Stella Allen
Sydney
Jason Kirkpatrick
Aaron Dale Burkeen
Robert Walker Branchaud
Doug Brown
Jonathan Angel
Gordon Jones
Juston Street
Anthony Gervasio
Henri Esteve
Andrea's Housemate
Terry Milam
Keith Blair Manuel
Garrett Kruithof
Karl Kleppinger Jr.
Deneen Tyler
Paula Walker
Jim Klock
Scared Crew Member
Garrett Hines
Wyman Wheeler
Trace Adkins
Massive Man
Sue-Lynn Ansari
Passenger (uncredited)
Julia Holt
Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Deepwater Horizon Ratings & Reviews
MTV
Amy Nicholson
Berg and Wahlberg were among the first to realize you can make big money in Hollywood's fastest-growing niche: the docbuster, which spins a recent disaster into a bombastic action flick
NPR
Bob Mondello
You can't help marveling at the tightrope the filmmakers walk: honoring their courage and sacrifice while making an action flick entertaining enough to justify the more than $100 million it took to make it come alive on-screen.
The New Republic
Will Leitch
Deepwater Horizon is powerful but limited-but there are worse crimes.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The film depicts the worst oil spill in American history and director Peter Berg recreates the cataclysm of that day with unbearable tension and healing compassion.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
At its best, the movie is like The Towering Inferno but without all the sudsy subplots that doused that film's fires.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"Deepwater Horizon" makes its intentions clear and does its job, just like the workers aboard that rig.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Ultimately, Deepwater Horizon, as terrific as Wahlberg, Russell and Rodriguez all might be, is more a technical marvel than it is anything else.
National Catholic Register
Steven D. Greydanus
The film sketches in these characters just enough to hold the story together. What really interests Berg is exploring how the disaster happened...and how those 126 people responded...
The Ringer
K. Austin Collins
[Deepwater] knows what it is: not a memorial or a political indictment, but merely a movie.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
Clumsy exposition aside, the dialogue feels authentic, tossing around the shorthand and lingo of the job, and the script is precise on the details without getting overwhelmed by them.
The Atlantic
David Sims
Viewers will leave with a fine sense of how it felt to be on that blazing rig, but they'll still have plenty of questions about how and why things went so wrong.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
In short, Peter Berg has done it again. You come out shaken with excitement, but with a touch of shame, too, at being so easily thrilled.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
My only serious complaint about Deepwater Horizon is that it's not quite the muckraker I'd hoped for.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
Berg's cornier tendencies win out at the very end of the film, slightly marring what is otherwise a crisp, admirably unadorned movie. Despite those bobbles, though, Deepwater Horizon immediately enters the canon of great disaster films.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Berg has an exceptional clarity in conveying a three-dimensional space on screen and balancing the urgency of the action with genuine emotion.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's ultimately a genre film with all that implies, meaning omissions, simplifications, conventional heroics, dramatic banalities and, given the narrative's limited scope, little sense of the event's complex causes or its environmental cost.
NPR
Scott Tobias
A common disaster movie, with cardboard heroes and villains and an excess of Irwin Allen spectacle. Any sense of outrage goes up in smoke.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
Berg's film works because it excludes anything that is not immediately involved in the actual explosion, including the full range of its causes or its long-term consequences.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
Deepwater Horizon achieves that impossible balance of being a tribute to the workers who both perished and survived that day and a searing critique of the rotten system that put them there in the first place.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Berg succeeds in balancing Deepwater Horizon's unnervingly believable special effects with the human element: when the rig first erupts in flames, it's as if some grim beast were gnashing at it with fiery teeth.
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Peter Berg On The Unique World Of The Film
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Kurt Russell On Working With John Malkovich
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Kate Hudson On Working With Felicia Williams
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Lorenzo Di Bonaventura On His Hope For The Audience
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Mark Wahlberg On The Appeal Of Telling True Stories
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