![]() ![]() If you've liked one thing Wahlberg has done, odds are,you'll like them all. While Wahlberg has been nominated for his roles in The Fighter and The Departed, he's one of those reliable actors who makes smart choices. It was nominated for Oscars for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for best stunt team performance. Deepwater Horizon marks the reunion of Director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg who collaborated on Lone Survivor three years ago. ![]() ![]() They should have listened to Mister Jimmy because everyone's worst nightmares explode into reality. They are already 43 days behind and over budget and will do whatever it takes to not fall further behind despite Mister Jimmy's (Kurt Russell) stern objections. They skip a concrete test and excuse a failed system test. Once aboard the rig, an executive named Vidrine (John Malkovich) and others from British Petroleum are more than anxious to commence with drilling. All his wife (Kate Hudson) wants is for him to return safely. All his daughter wants is a dinosaur fossil. He says goodbye to his family before being flown by helicopter with his crew to the rig. But that's the third thing we learn about Williams from the preview. With that in mind, here's my review: Mark Wahlberg plays Mike Williams who works on the drilling rig the Deepwater Horizon. It's based on two factors: how accurately the movie is portrayed by its preview, and the likelihood of the movie making it to my home collection. And this blog isn't about movies being historically accurate when they don't necessarily claim to be. I mean, the movie makes no claims to be a historically accurate documentary, so I shouldn't hold it to those standards. Along the way, I have made a decision to do no research into the facts of the real-life story and just focus solely on the movie itself. If you've read my previous reviews about Eddie the Eagle, Steve Jobs, The Big Short and Spotlight, you know that it's easy to get caught up in the details of how much of the story based on actual events really happened and how much was embellished or altered to make a Hollywood movie. In April of 2010, an offshore drilling rig named Deepwater Horizon exploded resulting in the worst oil spill in U. ![]()
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