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By Scott Mendelson (400) for Forbes (586) on 23 Oct 2016

It is a taut, mostly engaging, and just slightly melodramatic (in a good way) you are there retelling of the events that took place on April 20, 2010…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 15 Oct 2016

Well meaning but paint-by-numbers disaster movie shortchanges the really interesting story behind the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster…

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By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 14 Oct 2016

America's worst marine disaster is surprisingly watchable…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 13 Oct 2016

It's the usual, rote meet the players tactic that movies in this vein incorporate to provide you with just the right touch of character details…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 13 Oct 2016

When things start going haywire director Peter Berg unleashes a prolonged, meticulously orchestrated bonfire of such magnitude and veracity…

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By Vicky Roach (269) for Daily Telegraph (Australia) (376) on 12 Oct 2016

A convincing and terrifying dramatisation of events in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, from the point of view of the men and women who…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 12 Oct 2016

While this disaster movie doesn't do that great a job at explaining exactly what went wrong, it does succeed in putting the audience in the…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 11 Oct 2016

Deepwater Horizon, saddled with a collection of one-dimensional mouthpieces, proves unable to generate the thrills one might've anticipated…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 10 Oct 2016

Deepwater' certainly is not awful, but you can't get more mainstream -- or predictable -- than this Peter Berg telling of what caused the…

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By Tom Glasson (221) for Concrete Playground (635) on 09 Oct 2016

An earnest tribute to the men who lost their lives and a solid rebuke to those who were responsible…

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By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 06 Oct 2016

It's a fine reminder that the impossible disaster is only impossible until it happens, and when it does it inverts the world we think we control…

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By Graeme Tuckett (166) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 06 Oct 2016

Peter Berg's film of the disaster -- teaming up again with his Lone Survivor leading man Mark Wahlberg -- is a more than solid and exceptionally…

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By Russell Baillie (91) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 06 Oct 2016

Yes, there is much more that can be said about the catastrophe than this movie does…

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By Anthony Morris (102) for sbs.com.au (697) on 06 Oct 2016

There's no denying seeing the rig explode and burn is thrilling. The human-level drama is a bit less impressive…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 06 Oct 2016

The directing and editing gives us no sense of the space…

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By Rebecca Pahle (171) for Pajiba (523) on 06 Oct 2016

It's fine. It's good and fine. It is good and fine and decent and completely, in all ways, an acceptable movie…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for Buffalo News (278) on 05 Oct 2016

Disaster done right can be entertaining, and Deepwater is a solid example…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Oct 2016

Instead of telling us something that we already know, Berg shows us something that we've never seen…

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By Dominic Corry (151) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 05 Oct 2016

Isn't a life changer, but it's an effective true-life thriller with an authentic weightiness to what's on screen…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 05 Oct 2016

Admittedly, the heroics are overblown but there's a devastating clarity in the way the script defines the causes of the disaster…

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