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The Burning Sea
Directed by
John Andreas Andersen
PG-13
2021
1h 45m
Action
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Drama
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6.3
71%
45%
Rent for $3.99
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
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Cast of The Burning Sea
Kristine Kujath Thorp
Sofia
Henrik Bjelland
Stian
Rolf Kristian Larsen
Arthur
Anders Baasmo Christiansen
Ronny
Bjørn Floberg
William Lie
Anneke von der Lippe
Gunn Langlo
Ane Skumsvoll
Berit
Cengiz Al
Jasin
Mathilde Austegard Ypsøy
Oil Rig Worker
Nils Elias Olsen
Odin
Vidar Sandem
Chief Geologist
Christoffer Staib
Steinar Skagemo
Mariann Rostbøl
Vibeke
Amy Black Ndiaye
Secretary of State
Karina Knight
Political Adviser
Arild Sondre Sekse
Martin
Daniel Frikstad
Trapped Oil Rig Worker
Hibba Najeeb
Security Guard
Heidi Sandbukten
Langlo's Assistant
John Andreas Andersen
Director
Lars Gudmestad
Writer
Harald Rosenløw-Eeg
Writer
Martin Sundland
Producer
Catrin Gundersen
Producer
Therese Bøhn
Producer
The Burning Sea Ratings & Reviews
milko
April 3, 2025
One of the many disaster movies, but so well done and so emotional that for me it was as if it was the first one.
IndieWire
Robert Daniels
The characters in "The Burning Sea" are the standard stock and trade of disaster movies.
Nightmarish Conjurings
Dev Shea
If you can watch The Burning Sea, I highly recommend it. The pacing is steady. The story is eye-opening. The acting is incredible and it may become your favorite disaster film. This is definitely a movie to beat in 2022.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
By zeroing in on Sofia and Stian and their immediate friend circle, the disaster element remains taut.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
It's really well done... All those special effects are used in the correct way.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Wade Major
I really liked it more than I expected it to... It works beautifuly.
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
The Burning Sea is a formulaic disaster flick with no imagination or engaging personalities. Viewers can easily predict what happens and then quickly forget the movie. The movie's environmental message is cheapened by too many stupid scenarios.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Now there's a tone of bleak indictment rather than vicarious excitement, and the characters are less quirky than blandly earnest.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
[It takes] the time to develop each character and the special effects don't bludgeon you over the head.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
By keeping things small in scope as far as the human angle is concerned, the filmmakers do a splendid job of making this crisis personal.
jackiekcooper.com
Jackie K. Cooper
"The Burning Sea" is the best disaster movie I have seen in some time. Well acted, well plotted and well executed.
Film Threat
Rob Rector
The Burning Sea is also not immune to the tropes and cliches of the disaster movie and rarely contributes anything new or groundbreaking. But it provides enough nuance to its characters that we care for their survival.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
The Burning Sea may be gloomier and more character-driven than American genre nuts may be used to, but its still generic and therefore familiar enough to be satisfying.
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
Yes, there are the inevitable moments of cheesiness here and there, but for the most part The Burning Sea is a solidly constructed disaster thriller that proves to be a cut above most films of its type.
We Live Entertainment
Aaron Neuwirth
While the story follows a more predictable path, the use of spectacle and an appropriate level of melodrama delivers in the ways one would hope for a film like this.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Some solid action sequences provide the framework for a crowd-pleasing story of resilience, although the narrative predictability diminishes the stakes.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
"The Burning Sea" is a blunt reminder of two intertwined truths: Human-made environmental catastrophes are inevitable, and it's hard to turn them into decent action movies.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
The screenplay never feels as angry or as urgent as its real-world foundation and fictional stakes suggest.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
We get little more than a bland romance, smoothly professional special effects and a story that's finally too predictable to raise the heart rate.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
At this point the world needs a movie that documents the sins of the fossil-fuel industry more than it needs a thriller that plays off its unhappy accidents.
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