Loved it. What a great story. It's sad that it was a real event.

Crazy Great

It’s ultimately a genre film with all that implies, meaning omissions, simplifications, conventional heroics, dramatic banalities and, given the narrative’s limited scope, little sense of the event’s complex causes or its environmental cost.

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

There’s no question that Deepwater Horizon delivers thrills, but you may feel awfully empty afterward.

Bryan Bishop

The Verge

For a movie in which you can’t follow what’s going on for 75% of the time, Deepwater Horizon proves remarkably thrilling.

Peter Debruge

Variety