'Deepwater Horizon' is a slam-bang action movie
In April 2010, BP鈥檚 oil platform off the Louisiana coast massively exploded into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst oil spill in US history. Now we have the slam-bang action movie 鈥淒eepwater Horizon,鈥� which is directed by Peter Berg and stars Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell as two old-school stalwarts who spend a great deal of screen time dodging mud, fire, bulletlike bolts, and collapsing derricks.
Their chief adversary is the greedy, heedless BP executive played by John Malkovich in his finest slinky-slimy mode. At its best, the movie is like 鈥淭he Towering Inferno鈥� but without all the sudsy subplots that doused that film鈥檚 fires. Grade: B+ (Rated聽PG-13 for prolonged intense disaster sequences and related disturbing images, and brief strong language.)
