Deepwater Horizon Is a Human-Sized Disaster Movie

Deepwater HorizonDirected by Peter BergOpens September 30
In Deepwater Horizon, the central principle of offshore oil drilling is as simple as an upside-down Coke can. As his daughter rehearses a school presentation, the titular rig’s chief electronics technician, Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), opens a gash in the aluminum and inserts the scale model’s “pipeline,” explaining that extracting petroleum from beneath the ocean floor is not a process of pumping, but an imposi