SummaryIn 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighboring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. 50 years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including... Read More
Directed By:John Andreas Andersen
Written By:Lars Gudmestad, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg
The Burning Sea
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33% Positive
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Feb 25, 2022
65
By taking its time setting the stakes for all involved, when the action strikes, its impact is witnessed more through the cast rather than a cadre of CGI explosions.
Feb 25, 2022
63
The Burning Sea may ultimately be too uptight for its own good, but there’s enough here to satisfy disaster aficionados who’ve already been here before and only really want to root for more of the same.
Feb 25, 2022
58
For a movie so intuitively captivating, so visually extravagant, it very nearly papers over all its emotional weaknesses.
Feb 24, 2022
50
We get little more than a bland romance, smoothly professional special effects and a story that’s finally too predictable to raise the heart rate.
Feb 23, 2022
50
The film drops any interest in the blurring of fact and fiction as it settles into a rote account of a contemporary oil rig catastrophe.
Feb 25, 2022
40
The film as a whole, though, never hits as hard as it should. The characters are too stock — generic enough that their personalities won’t distract from the looming apocalyptic trouble.
Feb 23, 2022
40
The movie has every right to be fiction, but the heart of its drama lies in its patina of plausibility.
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Apr 19, 2022
4
(Mauro Lanari)
In his second disaster movie John Andreas Andersen explicitly confronts "Deepwater Horizon", but if in 2016 Berg proved unpredictably incapable of creating an epic blockbuster, the Norwegian director runs aground in a familiar melò despite havin' a catastrophe available 350 times bigger.
Production Company:
- Fantefilm
- Zefyr Media Fund
- Film i Väst
- Piggy Bænk
- Chezville
- Norsk Filminstitutt
- Nordisk Film & TV-Fond
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Release Date:Feb 25, 2022
Duration:1 h 44 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:From the Creators of "The Wave" and The Quake"
Awards
Amanda Awards, Norway
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
