By Emilio Frenk
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodríguez, Dylan O’ Brien and Kate Hudson.
Rating: Excellent
Peter Berg, director of “Lone Survivor” brings “Deepwater Horizon” and I was very impressed with the results.
Inspired in real life events, the movie centers on Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) a Chief Electronics Technician who is on board of the “Deepwater Horizon” oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico which after two tests of the rig cause a major explotion.
Now Williams will try to rescue the whole crew leading to what is considered one of the major oil spills in history.
Peter Berg is a director is well known for showing the most vulnerable side of human beings and in this case here was no different. With “Deepwater Horizon” does it with all the characters in the film specially with Mark Wahlberg who delivers again like he previously did in “Lone Survivor”.
The Screenplay plays a key role which is written Matthew Sand and and Matthew Michael Carnahan is written with such accuracy and it’s not the typical disaster movie where you only see the disaster and sometimes there is no story.
The movie takes us as the audience to the journey of how the events took place leading it to a fantastic climax.
This is the second collaboration with Berg and Wahlberg and again works at all levels. I remember when I watched “Lone Survivor” when it was released I was engaged with the story of Marcus Luttrell; here I had the same feeling with the crew of “Deepwater Horizon” and Berg is a smart director who knows how to use the element of tension to each scene of the film and I consider Berg one of the best directors on using this tool.
The cinematography by Enrique Chediak and the visual effects played a huge role and they are both executed very well.
I was surprised that for a movie like this the performances were really good since in disaster movies it’s rarely the case we see good acting and here was an exception of the rule.
“Deepwater Horizon” is one of the surprises of this year and I recommend it at all levels.
I can’t wait to see “Patriot’s Day” which is scheduled to be released next January and will mark the third collaboration between Wahlberg and Berg.