Review: Deepwater Horizon

The workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform soon find themselves in hot water after disaster strikes. Photo: GSC Movies

The next time you stop at a petrol station, spare a thought for the workers on offshore oil platforms. These brave men and women, after all, spend up to months at sea away from their families, working hard to obtain oil in dangerous conditions.

And after watching Deepwater Horizon, a biographical thriller about the worst oil spill in American history, you really realise the full extent of how dangerous those conditions can be. While scientific advances have allowed us to drill into oil wells beneath the sea bed with impunity, it only takes the smallest human error (especially coupled with corporate negligence) to cause a disaster.