A two-hour tedium that feels like an ordeal Deepwater Horizon

Director: Peter Berg Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson At the very end when you thank God, Producer and Destiny for a liberty from the two-hour claustrophobic tedium , a display card in the end-titles informs that we’ve just seen a film based on the worst oil rigging disaster in the history of such disasters.

Nothing compared to the disaster that is this awful true-life drama that does disservice not only to the people who suffered serious blows to life and health when an oil drilling ship off the coast of Louisiana went up in flames in 2010, but also to the disaster genre.

We’ve seen much better firedisaster films in the past.

The Poseidon Adventure in 1972 and The Towering Inferno in 1974, with their severely limited access to special effects, got us sucked into the anxieties and fears of the characters trapped in a raging fire while lounging in the lap of luxury. Serves them right, we said, as we watched the Page 3 crowd run for their lives.

Here in Deepwater Horizon, we are not even allowed to feel that distant contempt for the characters who land up in a deathly fire caused by human error. We feel neither the sense of foreboding that shadows the preamble of all disaster epics. Nor we do get involved in the survivors’ attempts to escape the burning ship.

The characters are all tropes